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Seabiscuit Persuasive Speech
Someone once said, “who said you can’t let people scare you. You can’t go your whole life trying to please everyone else. You can’t go through life worried about what everyone else is going to think. Whether it’s your hair, clothes, what you have to say, how you feel, what you believe and what you have. You can’t let the judgment of others stop you from being you. Because if you do, you're no longer you. You're someone everyone else wants you to be.” Nobody thought that Seabiscuit was good enough to race but in reality they just did not understand him. Once Red Pollard, Tom Smith, and Charles Howard bought Seabiscuit and started using frontier training methods he learned a lot more and started winning. Do not judge someone based on their appearance;

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