“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
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