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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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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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The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders attitudes toward risk – and failure. – Dee Dee Myers

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There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake. – Robert Fripp

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Its probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, its a failure. – James Taylor

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I really dont think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I dont mind the failure but I cant imagine that Id forgive myself if I didnt try. – Nikki Giovanni

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Its just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one. – Jeanne Moreau

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Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. – Norman Bradburn

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