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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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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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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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I made a very conscious effort to finish The Cypress House before So Cold the River launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book. – Michael Koryta

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All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure. – Alberto Giacometti

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Failure

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. – Anton Chekhov

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Failure

But thankfully, my first album, Wide Screen, was sort of a critics darling – everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies I wasnt even in the running for failure! – Rupert Holmes

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