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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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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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Patriotism
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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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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. – Napoleon Hill

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Failure

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. – P. J. ORourke

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Failure

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You dont try to forget the mistakes, but you dont dwell on it. You dont let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. – Johnny Cash

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Failure

If youre a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, youre considered a failure. – Jamie Moyer

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Failure

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President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. – William Westmoreland

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alone

Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths. – Drew Barrymore

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Life

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. – Lao Tzu

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good

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. – Norman Mailer

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Conformity