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Old 09-08-2016, 12:54 PM   #21
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From the article that Ha posted,

"But if you ask others, they will only encourage you to take the risk because they’d like to see the risk pay off, and they have nothing to lose if it doesn’t."

The italics are mine. Very, very true.
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