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Winston S. Churchill
“Never, never, never give in!”
― Winston S. Churchill
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“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
― Charles Spurgeon
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Margaret Thatcher
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
― Margaret Thatcher
tags: perseverance, rewriting-history
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“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
― Confucius, Confucius: The Analects
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Roy T. Bennett
“It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down.”
― Roy T. Bennett
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