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Quote by Alice James
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. – Alice James

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How sick one gets of being good, how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness. – Alice James

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respect
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Alice James
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One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. – Alice James

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Medical
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Failure
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American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Success is always less funny than failure. – Jon Ronson

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Failure

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. – Humphry Davy

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Failure

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. – James Allen

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Im a big advocate of financial intelligence. – Daymond John

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Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood. – Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War, 1948

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War

The question of whether its Gods green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying. – Edward Hoagland

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Ive had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage. – Jane Seymour

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Marriage