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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 have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan. – Shinzo Abe

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If youre not a born-again Christian, youre a failure as a human being. – Jerry Falwell

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Ive always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules. – Malcolm Mclaren

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At the root of many a womans failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. – Robert Farrar Capon

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