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Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Politics

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Eisenhower is saying that in any competition or struggle, you must keep putting in effort until the very end because the possibility of failure always exists. This mindset applies not only to war and politics but to any situation where the outcome is uncertain.

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