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Show Fred Waring was once rejected re-jected from High School Chorus and Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade. Well, that's just a few of the thousands of people peo-ple who set out to do something for themselves, and proved that 'They were wrong. The point Is not to let a little discouragement slow you down. Keep pressing forward, like me. An English Eng-lish teacher once said I'd never be a writer. And look at me. . . living proof that English teachers are usually right! Ever have one of those j days when everything you try to do flops? We all get times when we feel absolutely absolute-ly useless. . . why are we , here anyway? . . . Wouldn't the world be better off without with-out us? Next time you are struck j by the blues, remember some of the following - and take consolation. . . all is I not lost. Einstein was four years old before he could speak and sever before he could read. Isaac Newton did poorly in elementary school, and Beethoven's music teacher reportedly once said of him, "As a composer, he is hopeless." And of course we all know that these men went on to invent the cotton gin and the dry martini. mar-tini. When Thomas Edison was a boy, his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything. F. W. Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21, but his employers would not let him wait on a customer as he "didn't have enough sense." That was the name of Tom Edison's teacher -F.W. Woolworth. A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had no good ideas. (I always questioned the forslght of our editors). Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college, Werner Von Braun flunked ninth grade algebra; Louis Pasteur was rated mediocre in chemistry chemis-try at the Royal college, and Abe Lincoln entered the Black Hawk war as a cap-''"' cap-''"' tain and came out a pri-.vate. |