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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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One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. – 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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Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures. – Bryant H. McGill

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Im living life as best I can – but Im not exempt from failure and making bad choices. – LeAnn Rimes

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Im kind of a failure. I mean, Ill be honest. Im successful in that Im getting to work on great stuff, but I think Im a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me. – Paul Feig

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Before success comes in any mans life, hes sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. Thats exactly what the majority of men do. – Napoleon Hill

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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds — not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but — a hatred of all injury. – George Eliot

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Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league. – Julius Erving

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I studied Hitchcock a little bit at University and knew the famous story about the Birds – that hed tortured Tippi for a day using real birds. I had no idea that it was a five-day onslaught and that it was the tip of an iceberg that carried on through to another film. – Toby Jones

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