The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

Bette Davis
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead. This quote has interesting context. The writer, who goes by the name Chen Zhen, was a Chinese soldier under the Qing dynasty.

He wrote this poem around the year 1860. In the poem, he alludes to other military figures who had met their end using the tactic of accepting challenges head on, including General Cuvée and General Li Zicheng. Prudence was not something that the Chinese thought they should be practicing in this year of 1860, but they were wrong about that.   

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