"If a culture stops allowing people the right to fail, that culture will die."
- Tariq Ali
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Absolutely correct!
ReplyDeleteI just couldn't agree more. Being all the time eager to succeed is the first step to fail. So there are no cultures that have never been defeated, because they were eager to succeed, to be victorious all the time. A lesson from History, I guess...
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