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Quote by James Thurber
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far back

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. – James Thurber

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The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to the story of our time, and we might as well face the truth that to researchers of the future, poking about among the ruins of time, we shall all be tiny glitters. But then, so are diamonds. – James Thurber

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Jewelry
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? – James Thurber

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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? – Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. – Lord Chesterfield

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We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring. – David Grayson

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This nation was built by men who took risks — pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action. – Brooks Atkinson

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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. – James Russell Lowell

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