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Failure
«The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape»
«The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Failure,
Religion,
Theory
| Keywords:
Child of God, devil, soon, succeeds, taken, taken over, theory, the Devil
«Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
condemned, repeat
«The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
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Failure
| Keywords:
failing, limited, notice, range, shapes, The Range
«The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.»
«The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
banishment, Siberian