"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." — Thomas Edison

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

— Thomas Edison

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The point of giving up is often exactly where the breakthrough would have occurred — persistence protects that gap.

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