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To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. ✨ Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (1998). A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography, p.18, Univ. of Tennessee Press
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of … ▶
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To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. ✨ Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (1998). A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography, p.18, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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