It is very easy to forgive ...

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
 Jessamyn West

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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
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Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.
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I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
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