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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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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. – James Baldwin

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It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. – James Baldwin

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Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin

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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. – Karen Armstrong

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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. – P. J. ORourke

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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. – John Dewey

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Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure. – Matt Blunt

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