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【正文】 lieves there ought to be a liberal litmus test for judicial voted against banning the brutal practice of partial birth believe that reasonable people can find mon ground on difficult issues, and I will continue reaching out and bringing Americans together to protect our deepestheld of these choices make this one of the most important elections in our past four years, you have seen how I do my when you might not aGREe with me, you know where I stand, what I believe, and what I intend to , the decision will be in your however you decide, I urge you to get out and vote on you for Mo Junhua S－U－C－C－E－S－ is the catchword of the goes without saying that almost all of us want to be it or not, however, we must admit that it s not easy to achieve often than not, we have to deal with its opposite, namely first of all, what is failure? It is hard to define, because different people have different , as far as I39。m concerned, I think real failure is not to try 39。s mendable that you set your mind on the best and constantly strive for many times, however, it39。s unlikely that you39。ll do the best, because of the scarcity of and because of the fact that the attainment of the very best involves many things, some of which are beyond your addition，to your own merit, that of your petitors also plays an important it is a more sensible, but no less mendable thing for you to pete with yourself, not with don t have to do you should always try to do your best in whatever you are determined to you have given it 100 percent, you are not a failure, even though you are outplayed by you have given it 100 percent, there s nothing to regret, nor is there any need to blame , you should give credit to yourself for don t like finding excuses for our failures, because we haven t failed at myself for year, I enrolled for the Sports Meet in my university and peted in the 3,000－meter did this not because I m gifted in or good at running, but because I wanted to fulfill a childhood had been an inpetent student of physical education or ., ever since I was a primary school a weak student of ., I never got a chance to participate in a sports envied my classmates who were good at used to dream of being one of them and displaying my skills in a sports I entered university, I spent much of my spare time on physical exercises, such as running, the long I can run much faster than before, I m not capable of winning a prize or a good place in a campus－wide running spite of that, I still entered for the event, because I wanted to challenge myself and fulfill my athletic could have stayed away and had an easy time of it by not going in for this I chose to accept the challenge and face the trained hard for the race, so when I came out last but one in the petition, I didn t call my attempt a failure, because I had tried and failure is not to try hard.“I will forgive myself if I fa。I won t forgive myself if I don39。t try”, because “It39。s better to hav fought and lost than not to fight at all”.Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement once said：“the most important thing in Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part, just like the most important thing in life is not the triumph, but the essential thing is not to have conquered, but to have fought well.”But what if we did fail in something? , don t panic, because failure is not the end of the the English saying goes, he who falls today may rise , try, try again, because nothing is really over until the moment we stop long as we persist and never give up, we will succeed failure is , just as bitter medicine cures sickness, failure may prove to be very instructive, so long as we can put it in is a saying that failure is the mother of 39。s natural for us to get depressed for a certain period of time, but we shouldn39。t inflate the importance of our temporary setback and be disheartened by setbacks, even never should be undaunted by failures and motivated to strive even harder to failure is not to try is my firm belief that one39。s earnest efforts will not be will pay off either in other ways or at other this sense, today39。s failure prepares tomorrow39。s last, let39。s bear Goldsmith39。s remarks in mind：“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but rising every time we fall。”Thank you all!第四篇Crossing the Sea Good afternoon, ladies and title of my speech today is “Crossing the Sea”.An English poet by the name of Rudyard Kipling once wrote in his poem “We and They”: “All the people like us are We And everyone else is They We live over the sea While They live over the way We eat pork and beef with cowhornhandled knives They who gobble their rice off a leaf Are horrified out of their lives.” When these lines first caught my eyes, I was shockedhow could two peoples remain so isolated and ignorant of each other in the past? Today39。s society, of course, is an entirely different people who used to eat with cowhornhandled knives might be very skillful in using chopsticks, and those people who used to gobble their rice might be as well have taken to fish and , just take China as an example: Our modern life has been influenced by Western style of living in so many ways that it39。s no longer surprising to see teenagers going crazy about rockandroll, whole families dining out at McDonald39。s and even rather elderly people dressed in Apple , these are only some expressions of the cultural changes taking place in our society is really going on is a subtle but significant restructuring of the nation39。s look many college graduates are ready to pete aggressively for every job opportunity, whereas not long ago they were asked just to sit idle and wait for whatever was to be assigned to them by the government? How many young people are now eager to seek for an independent life whereas only two decades ago they would rely totally on their parents to arrange for their future? Ask anyone who participates in today39。s speech has n