Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

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Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing. - Ernest Becker

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Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing. - Dwight D. Eisenhower quotes