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"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
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"You don't need notes... you either do it ... or you either you don't do it."

"Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas."

"Religion,” [some] argue, “may be all right for certain emotional people, but you can't beat a man who believes in himself.” But this self-confident generation has produced more alcoholics, more dope addicts, more criminals, more wars, more broken homes, more assaults, more embezzlements, more murders, and more suicides than any other generation that ever lived. It is time for all of us to take stock of our failures, blunders, and costly mistakes. It is about time that we put less confidence in ourselves and more trust and faith in God."

"Which is the most successful country on Earth? In whichever country dying is the most difficult thing, that country is the most successful one! And which is the most stupid country on earth? In whichever country dying is the easiest thing, that country is the most stupid one!"

"[While] disappointment and failure aren't identical, they often occur together, and both can hold us back from God's best for our lives."
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"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."

"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."

"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."

"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."

"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."

"As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it."

"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."

"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."

"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."

"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."
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