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DAVID and GOLIATH Essays
 Dicky's Essay“Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.” ― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants |  Cecilia's Essay“Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.” ― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants |  Jenny's Essay“As the playwright George Bernard Shaw once put it: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants |
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 Rebecca's Essay“You can’t concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, “What’s gonna happen if it doesn’t go right?” ― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants |  Beth's Essay“There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.” ― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants |
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