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But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

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Saints are sinners who kept on going. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.” – Author Unknown

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The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time. – Lady Aberdeen

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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. – Jacob A. Riis

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