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Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain—if you recognize historically that that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.

Richard M. Nixon

Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995), U.S. Republican politician, president. remark to interviewer, Sept. 1980. Quoted in Robert Sam Anson, Exile: The Unquiet Oblivion of Richard M. Nixon, ch. 17 (1984).

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