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The occasion, the event, the place, and the person contribute their influence and affect one man more, another less. But if aspiration is to come nearer to achievement, if he is not to be satisfied with a merely ordinary inner existence, then there is a point beyond which he cannot afford to let conditions impose the decisive factor, the determining fiat.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 397