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Good morning everyone! My name is Jie Lidi. Today, my topic is: Confidence. As we all know, failure is the mother of success. But What I want to say is that success is the child of confidence. Without confidence, things can bee negative and unfortable. I remember, during an English class, I wanted to make a sentence using the word listen. I should have said: I listen to the Voice of America but I was too nervous and said I listen to the Noise of America. Everybody in the class laughed. Since then I wanted to train myself to be confident. Now, confidence makes me brave and courageous. Take this speech for example. I wanted to enter this petition, but I would feel very embarrassed if I made mistakes. Just then, I thought about my d