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FAILURE IS NOT FATAL

February 1, 2016September 9, 2020 / Gifford MacShane / 5 Comments

Just the other day, I posted this quote from Winston Churchill: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Normally, I'd just leave it out there and it would hopefully inspire some other folks the way it inspired me. But I've found that over the past few … Continue reading FAILURE IS NOT FATAL

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