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The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.
 
    ―     Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia
 
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
 
    ―     Thomas J. Watson
 
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On This Day In:
2022 Defeated: So Far (Anyway)
2021 Elections Have Consequences
  It’s Cold Way Down There
2020 Fearless Security
2019 I Prefer A Neat Single Malt
2018 Seeking Finer Fruits
2017 Something That Is Absolute
2016 Animate And Encourage
  Out Of Time
2015 In Time
2014 Robust Interconnectivity
2013 What Have We Here?
2012 Tributaries And Eddies
  An Honest Politician
2011 Penultimate
   

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I know the price of success — dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
    —     Frank Lloyd Wright
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On This Day In:
2021 Truthfully
Average It Up
2020 Demonstrably Proven To Yield No Benefits
But When You Must, Stand
2019 Paint-By-Numbers
2018 #45: Still Trying To
Oh, Well…
2017 Two Views Of The Starting Line
2016 Never Had It, Never Will (Donald Trump)
2015 20/20
2014 All Of My Best Ideas Come While Walking…
2013 Learn To Learn
2012 I Remind You
2011 Respect And Prestige
2010 Living Legends (Willie Nelson) and the Gettysburg Address

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Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.
    —     Anonymous
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
    —     Nelson Mandela
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On This Day In:
2021 Get Vaccinated AND Wear A Mask
Since She Left
2020 Didn’t I Just Post Yesterday?
2019 A Long Slog
2018 There Is No God But God
To The Uncommitted Reader
2017 Not Yet That Well-Organized
2016 Probably Whatever Was Sought Yesterday
2015 What We Choose To Divide Us
2014 Peace With Honor
2013 Dangerous Systems
2012 Useful Science
2011 Say It, But Please Don’t Make Me Listen

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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
    —     Walter Bagehot
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On This Day In:
2021 One Likely Consequence
Just A Carousel
2020 Know Love
2019 Spoiler Alert
2018 Tic-Toc
2017 Explaining Working Class Support For Donald
2016 Not In My Experience
2015 Effort
2014 Honest Wants
2013 Faith, n.
2012 Surprise Me
2011 Confused With Truth

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Goodness is always an asset.  A man who is straight, friendly and useful may never be famous, but he is respected and liked by all who know him.  He has laid a sound foundation for success and he will have a worthwhile life.
    —     Herbert N. Casson
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On This Day In:
2021 A Little…
Bringing Back Memories
Think Global – Act Local
2020 Was #IncompenentDonald Born To Be A Diplomat?
2019 Have You Planted Lately?
2018 Something / Nothing
2017 Kindness
2016 Dealing With It
2015 Too Many Choices!
2014 Vini, Vidi, Vici
2013 Heroes
Education, n.
2012 Who I Want To Be
2011 Mythic Forgetfulness

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Failure is nothing to get upset about.  It’s a fairly normal condition;  an inevitability in ninety-nine percent of all human undertakings.  Success is rare — that’s why people get so cranked up about it.
    —     Frank Zappa
From his book:  “The Real Frank Zappa Book
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On This Day In:
2021 Don’t Let The Violent Take It From Us
Scratch Me
2020 Or Frightens Us
2019 The Best Gifts
2018 Sweep!!!
We Must Be Living In TRULY Historic Times
2017 The Best?
2016 Timely Opinions On “The Donald”
Even Allowing For Coincidence
2015 First Things First
2014 Without The Other
2013 Earn This
Seeking A View
2012 Stumblin’ Along My Way
We’re Proud Of You, Jr!
Union Card
Two Philosophies
2011 Simply Unpredictable

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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance.  Success comes from within, not from without.
    ―     Ralph Waldo Emerson
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On This Day In:
2022 What You Know
2021 Some Doctors Are Better Than Others
Lessons
2020 A Liar As President Corrupts Us
2019 Is It Dark And Quiet For You?
2018 Undeniable Requirement
2017 Orange Corrosion
2016 Both Particle And Wave
2015 Deep In Debt
2014 The Difference
2013 My Heart Is Described
2012 Keen To Be Alone
2011 The Ideal Business…
2010 55

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Daily ripples of excellence over time become a tsunami of success.
    —     Robin S. Sharma
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On This Day In:
2021 Become Daily
Just Pickin’
2020 So, You Think You Know The Answer?
The One You Come Running To
2019 His Promises, OUR Hopes
2018 Where I Write
2017 At Last, An Honest Philosopher…
2016 Fake It ‘Til You Make It
2015 Hell Toupée
2014 Corrected And Amended
2013 Too Few
2012 Three Characters
2011 Universal Payment
2010 Privatizing the TSA?  (An old – and long – post, but still relevant!!)

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The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
    —    Mark Twain
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On This Day In:
2020 Facing The Truth
2019 How Much Is Your Education Worth?
Is America Ready: Mayor Pete – 2020!!
2018 Disruptive Definition
2017 A History Of Small Insights
2016 Be Uncommon
2015 Ooops!
2014 What Price Freedom?
2013 Remembering Val
2012 Good-bye, Val
Survival Value
2011 Traitors In Our Midst
Life Ain’t Easy

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Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
    —    Nelson Mandela
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On This Day In:
2022 Putin’s War On Ukraine: Choosing Lies
2021 How Many Times
I’m Breaking My Silence
2020 When Looking Around
2019 Except Dying
2018 History Will Judge Him Favorably
2017 Are You Confused?
2016 The Golden Mean
2015 To Infinity And Beyond
2014 Taken Back
2013 Windows Or Doors
2012 All Rise
2011 Vote Weight

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There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ person.  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 of our thoughts, as well as our success.
   —    George Burton Adams
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On This Day In:
2022 Choose Possible
2021 Thousands
Where Did All The Blue Skies Go?
2020 A Profound Source
2019 Sad Words
2018 Self-Sorted
2017 Right
2016 At Least One Step
2015 Month To Month Rental
2014 Professional Beliefs
2013 Books Are…
2012 True Distinguishing Marks
2010 Sub-300

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with the success unexpected in common hours.
    —    Henry David Thoreau
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On This Day In:
2021 Most Likely Beast
Memories To Last A Lifetime
2020 Meet Unexpected Success
Sweet Love
2019 Curing With Salt
2018 A Politician With Skills
And / Or A Genuine Smile
2017 A Lone, Brave Voice…
2016 Job Security
2015 For I Have Always Lived Violently
2014 We Stand !! (I Stand With George)
Additional Requirements
2013 In The Present Day
2012 Feeling It
2011 Stretching Science

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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
    —    Booker T. Washington
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On This Day In:
2021 My Fear Is She Loses This Bet
Gotta Stay Hungry
2020 Still On The Obstacle Course?
Thunder
2019 Expecting A December Correction
2018 Dominoes II (Update From Last Year’s Post)
2017 Dominoes
2016 Itchin’
2015 In The Not So Distant Future
2014 Sources
2013 Three Essentials
2012 Just Looking
2011 Religious Lessons
2010 View From Under The Bus… (A mid-term report card on the Obama Administration. Long, but still worth reading for historical perspective.)

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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
    —    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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On This Day In:
2021 Looking Up
Shiny
2020 #45: Or All-Consuming Greed
You Could Have Told Me Yourself
2019 Not Personal
2018 Preference For Irrationality
2017 All At Once
2016 One Of My Vices
2015 The War Lord
2014 Orange October (II) – Giants Win NLDS Game 2 In 18 Innings (2 to 1)!!
Acknowledging Doubt
2013 Fulfilled Acceptance
2012 Error Is Tolerated Here (So Far)
2011 In Defense Of Pain

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I have never known a successful man who did not appreciate the discipline that it takes to win.
    —   Vince Lombardi
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On This Day In:
2021 Buying Time In A Fixed Game
Dedicated To: Messrs. Rubio And Pompeo
2020 What It Takes
Every Sign Was A Northern Star
2019 Stuff Happens
Whistleblower Complaint Regarding President Trump And Ukraine
2018 Looking Into Golf
Goin’ Yard
2017 Improvise
2016 Got Leisure?
2015 It’s Been Hurtin’ For Quite A While Now
2014 Curious Talent
2013 Eureka
2012 Slow Me
2011 He Said What?!?
2010 Gritty
3 and 3
Just A Hunch
Wall Street – Movie Review
2nd Pair – Shoe Review (Aborted and Final)

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