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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. – James Baldwin

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James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare– but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. – James Baldwin

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History
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James Baldwin
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James Baldwin

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Purity
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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin

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I made a very conscious effort to finish The Cypress House before So Cold the River launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book. – Michael Koryta

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Failure

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but womens failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap wont go away. – Dee Dee Myers

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Failure

Ones only rival is ones own potentialities. Ones only failure is failing to live up to ones own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. – Abraham Maslow

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Failure

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems. – John Mica

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Failure

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With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair. – Matthew Arnold

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Its long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits. – Martha Plimpton

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Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy. – Izabella Scorupco

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CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because shes strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it. – Jay Leno

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Men