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Few things in life are more enchanting than the potential of winning the lottery. The things that I'll buy, where I'll go, what I'll build. It's all very, very exciting. Except, did you ever see the news when somebody actually wins the lottery? It's always the same image. A husband and wife standing side by side, holding a giant ceremonial check with a huge number at the end of it. All smiles, elated at the idea that they have just won hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars. Refresh the page a year later, maybe two years later. Usually the result... devastation. They no longer have money. The marriage has fallen apart. What happened? You see, the answer is simple. When something comes that easy, when something comes that fast, when something comes with no hurdles, easy come, easy go. The difficulty in the challenge of guarding ourselves to make sure that we look and see what we are supposed to,
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- 1:38What does it mean ‘Man is plenty’? Man is not plenty, man is an individual. He's…
- 2:09I am מאד. I'm infinite. Because it's difficult, because it's challenging, that's how we know this…
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