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Whoopi Goldberg

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

Failure

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Everyone starts life with the potential to succeed, but it is other people who label certain outcomes as failures. These judgments depend on how others interpret our actions, not on an inherent truth about us.

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