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Ambitious people often waste their lives by leaving things too early. The people who left almost always left at the moment things got hard, and very few who ended up where they had been hoping to go. The line you're standing in is the only one you know from the inside. Nobody switches lines because they've studied both. They switch because their own line's problems are visible. A la.... the grass is always greener... Then they get to the new line and its problems become visible, and now there's another line, one aisle over, that looks fine. Nobody congratulates you for staying in a line.…
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