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Take A Chance.

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Dismissed...

...from drama school, with a note that read: “Wasting her time; she’s too shy to put her best foot forward”...

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Turned Down...

...by the Decca Recording Company, who said: “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out”...

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A Failed...

...soldier, farmer, and real estate agent, at 38 years old, he went to work with his father as a handyman...

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Cut...

...from the high school basketball team, he went home, locked himself in his room, and cried...

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Michael Jordan

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A Teacher Once Said...

...he was “too stupid to learn anything, and he should go into a field where he might succeed by virtue of his pleasant personality”...

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Thomas Edison

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Fired...

...from a newspaper because he “lacked imagination and had no original ideas”...

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Walt Disney

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His...

...fiancé died, he failed in business (twice), he had a nervous breakdown, and he was defeated in eight elections...

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If you have never failed,

then you have never lived.

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And there is nothing you can’t

live down, rise above, or grow beyond.

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Take a chance.

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Rise Above. Grow Beyond.

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