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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency – the belief that the here and now is all there is. – Allan Bloom

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Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as mens taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure has become entertainment. – Allan Bloom

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Laziness
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Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. – Charles Stanley

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. – Oscar Wilde

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I simply dont believe in failure. In itself, it doesnt exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail. – Alice Foote MacDougall

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Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. – Montgomery Clift

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