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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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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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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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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Failure
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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. – Joyce Brothers

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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. – J. K. Rowling

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Failure

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom. – Cat Cora

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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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Failure is what were all running from, were always running toward success with failure at our back. – Natalie Goldberg

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Time

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and Im amazed they dont understand what a great pleasure it can be to give. – Robert Mondavi

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amazing

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