Quote by S.I. Hayakawa
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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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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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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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Failure and things of this sort – you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth. – Matt Emmons

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The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. – Toni Cade Bambara

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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. – Andy Grove

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

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