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Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.  

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← Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes   →

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