Would you please record
"2007_18-20", "2007_21-23" in my post?
Maybe they're in request page number one or two.
If you would do, so thank you very much!!
21.
I wonder how many people give up just when success is almost within reach. They endure day after day, and just when they’re about to make it, decide they can’t take any more. The difference between success and failure is not that great. Successful people have simply learned the value of staying in the game until it is won. Those who never make it are the ones who quit too soon. When things are darkest, successful people refuse to give up because they know they’re almost there. Things often seem at their worst just before they get better. The mountain is steepest at the summit, but that’s no reason to turn back.
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You can certainly make bad quality wine from good quality grapes, but you cannot make good quality wine from bad quality grapes. What happens in the vineyard is crucial. To start with, you need well drained, not necessarily over fertile soil in order to make the vine’s roots dig deep into the soil. After the grapes are picked, either by hand or by machine, they are taken to the winery. The vineyard needs plenty of exposure to the sun in cool climate areas. There needs to be enough rain, or in some cases, irrigation. With too little water, the grape skins become too tough and they fail to ripen.
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Someone who reads only newspapers and books by contemporary authors looks to me like a near-sighted person. He is completely dependent on the prejudices of his times. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is at best insignificant and monotonous. There are only a few enlightened people with a clear mind and with good taste within a century. What has been preserved of their work belongs among the most precious possessions of mankind. We owe it to a few writers of old times that the people in the Middle Ages could slowly free themselves from ignorance.
