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“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”
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“For the first 10 years of my life in Congress, I had been too timid to tell the truth as I saw it. In a way I had betrayed my trust.”
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“Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.”
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“The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.”
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“Last I heard, I was being traded to Washington for Monica Lewinsky.”
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“Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.”
Source : Albert Payson Terhune (1930). “To the Best of My Memory”, New York : Harper
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“The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose--the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.”
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“If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.”
Source : Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”