Approval ratings will never properly reflect maximum effort and perseverance under challenging circumstances, but whether or not you have won the World Series at the end of the season.

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And that the best changes you can make for yourself in the year ahead, whether in what you do each day or how you do it, are going to exact perseverance, courage and focused effort.

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But this will take a good amount of patience, perseverance, commitment and presence by the international community and steady effort by our Afghan friends.

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