Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

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Malcolm X was a 20th-century American civil rights activist. MalcolmĀ X was an African American revolutionary and human rights activist who founded Muslim Mosque, Inc. (MMI) and the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Fear — Understanding and overcoming the anxieties that hold us back

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