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“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
Source: “Colin Powell's 13 Rules”, Parade, 13 August 1989
Context The line is one of 13 personal rules he kept on his desk, published in Parade magazine as he was nominated chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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