Bill Bartmann Quotes

The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.

Bill Bartmann

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• After Mitt Romney's defeat, the RNC released its official assessment of what happened - a failure to reach younger voters, nonwhite voters, women - but was met with a counter-narrative that, in fact, it was Romney's failure to be conservative enough that led to a depressed Republican base.

  

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• Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.

  

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• My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb garlic blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.

  

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• The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.

  

  Bill Bartmann
  • Failure
  • Deal
  • Self-Doubt