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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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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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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 is an event, never a person. – William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!

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I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice – in giving a failure another chance. – James Cash Penney

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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. – Alexandre Dumas

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Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think Im a failure. – William Hurt

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. – Luc de Clapiers

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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. – Benjamin Franklin

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Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless. – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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