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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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"Admire the efforts of a failure like you admire the beauty of a sunset."
"Don't you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there's a huge possibility you'll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn't that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don't you find that scary?"
"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."
"To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born."
"Greed squeezes your dreams into a portable size, so that failure can easily carry them to dump somewhere."
"The only failure is giving up."
"To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment."
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"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it."
"In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."
"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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