“Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), The Defeated Ones
“When choices do not start from one's own ethnicity we defeat tribalism.”
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