Confidence and Toughness - You need to have both

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter stated
“You have
to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow
through.”
I think that this is true in many things, especially overcoming overwhelm you feel.

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Here's Something That Has Nothing To Do With Basketball (Except …

This is for all of you folks who are ready to tear out your own liver if I write another basketball post. I will be doing so - probably as soon as tomorrow - but I’m in no hurry to see you ripping out your internal organs, so this might …
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Brazil inmate had $173K, guns, TV, fridge in cell

SAO PAULO, Brazil - The luxurious lifestyle of a convict in northeastern Brazil has come to an abrupt end after police confiscated a plasma TV set, gym equipment, two pistols and cash worth $173000 from his cell, officials said Tuesday. …
Brazil inmate had $173K, guns, TV, fridge in cell

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Strangers offer to help kids get cat an operation

OGDEN, Utah - Strangers from near and far are offering their help to Patches, the Ogden cat who needs an expensive operation. Patches suffered a spinal cord injury that paralyzed her rear right leg when she was a kitten. …
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Couple, 100 and 99, drove wrong way on highway

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Police say an elderly couple, aged 100 and 99, who drove the wrong way along a highway for more than a mile in New Zealand before crashing will probably be asked to surrender their driver’s licenses. …
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Just too busy to peel oranges?

LONDON (Reuters) - Britons are too busy to eat oranges in their lunch breaks nowadays and are opting instead for “easy to peel” fruit like satsumas, according to a survey. For the third year in a row, orange consumption has fallen. …
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Man orders father murdered to get his job

PATNA, India (Reuters) - An Indian man, frustrated at failing to find employment, ordered the murder of his father to get his government job, a day before the victim was to retire, police said on Tuesday. …
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Dutch man injures posterior in mooning accident

UTRECHT, Netherlands - Utrecht police say a 21-year-old Dutch man is recovering after a “mooning” that went horribly wrong. A police statement says the man and two others had run down a street in Utrecht with their pants pulled down in …
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