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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

Other quotes by Alice James

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

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Failure
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The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high. – John P. Kotter

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I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure. – Trent Reznor

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Nothing fails like success because we dont learn from it. We learn only from failure. – Kenneth Ewart Boulding

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The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure. – Anna Neagle

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Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. Its just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And its also an affirmation of faith in their country. – Simon Hoggart

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Not all religion is to be found in the church, any more than all knowledge is found in the classroom. – Author Unknown

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