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• How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
  -- Cindy Adam...
• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
  -- Thomas Ediso...
• There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others.
  Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success....
• Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.