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Most of the great figures of history--be they great in war or thought, art or industry--have felt that some higher power than their own was largely responsible for the upward arc of their career. Napoleon felt it and said: "I feel myself driven toward an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall have become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me."

-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 3 : Laws and Patterns of Experience > # 413