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Winston Churchill

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

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Winston Churchill is saying that focusing too much on the distant future can be unhelpful because we can only deal with the present moment effectively. He compares life to a chain, where each event depends on the one before it, so we should concentrate on handling one step at a time.

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