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The fact that we can get up and start over again is what makes us different than the other animals on the planet. We are the only species that has ever found a way to overcome our many failures. This power to overcome our failures is what makes us human. If we never got back up after falling, then we would be like the animals around us.
Those animals do not have this power to rise above their mistakes. They never get over their defeats, but they also never rise again.
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