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Page 160 keyword failure keyword death someone wants asked the Spartan King Leonidas to identify the supreme warrior virtue from which all others flowed. He replied: contempt for death. This can also be read as contempt for failure. This should be your cardinal virtue. By confining your attention territorially to your own thoughts and actions, in other words to the work and it's demands, we cut the earth from beneath the foes who try to stop us from our mission.

— from The Landing (Death)

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Viktor Frankl, who learned this in the one place on earth designed to strip a man of everything, insisted that resistance always remains a choice — that a person can choose death itself rather than surrender his integrity and his values. The Spartan king Leonidas, asked to name the supreme warrior virtue from which all the others flow, answered in two words: contempt for death. That is not bravado; it is freedom. — The Landing (Death)

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