We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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I held hands with her all the time; that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were. ~J. D. Salinger
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. ~Billy Childish
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I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing. ~Al Jourgensen
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced, a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted. ~Georges Canguilhem
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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