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“This is what I do with every failure, every crisis, every difficult time — I say, what is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on.”

Source: Commencement address at Stanford University, 15 June 2008

Context In her Stanford commencement address, she told graduates how she had dealt with setbacks in her career and what they could take from them.

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Oprah WinfreyUnited States · b. 1954
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