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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.” – S.I. Hayakawa

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Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. – S.I. Hayakawa

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Justice & Law
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. – S.I. Hayakawa

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Conformity
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Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. – S.I. Hayakawa

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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. – William Howard Taft

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Failure

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation. – Adam Schiff

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Failure

A man can fail many times, but he isnt a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. – John Burroughs

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Failure

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. – Gary Ryan Blair

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A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace. – Suze Orman

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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change – within himself, not on the outside. – Joseph Brodsky

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Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice. – Pierre Cabanis, translated from French

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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