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THE MAN WHO IS UNBEATABLE 
ANY an ambitious young man wonders 
_§¢ ik ? 
What are great men really like : 
Are they a special class of supermen ? 
Have they always a power that other men do 
not possess ? ”’ 
So far as I have seen, and I have made it a 
point all my life to know and study great men, 
they are different in only one thing—they have 
a big task that they set out to do, and they keep 
on at it in spite of everything. 
They are unbeatable. This seems to be the 
one quality that they all have in common. 
Some are well-educated. Others have had 
no school education at all. Some are refined 
and some are uncouth. Some are sympathetic 
and some are ruthless. Some are public- 
minded, and some are sheer egotists. 
All are self-centred, in the sense that they do 
not allow themselves to be pushed about. No 
great man is ever a drifter. No one is ever a 
day-by-day detailist, if I may invent a new 
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