that read wasting your time.

She's too shy to put her best foot forward.

Turned down by the Decca recording company

who said we don't like the sound

and guitar music is on the way out.

A failed soldier, farmer and real estate agent,

at 38 years old he went to work for his father as a handyman.

Cut from the high school basketball team, he went home,

locked himself in his room and cried.

Teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything

and he should go into a field where he might succeed by virtue

of his pleasant personality.

Fired from a newspaper because he lacked imagination

and had no original ideas.

His fiance died.

He failed in business twice.

He had a nervous breakdown

and he was defeated in eight elections.

If you've never failed, you've never lived.

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