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S. I. Hayakawa

"Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure."

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"Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure."

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"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."

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