"...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot."

-- Russell Kirk

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“Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.”
“I've told you a million times, I don't exaggerate.”

Source : "Stelling on Saturday: nobody does it better" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2006.
“When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.”

Source : Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement”, p.161, University of Chicago Press
“Not many people like him, he's an angry man. He'd go after his own shadow.”
“I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.”
“When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.”
“Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.”
“Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don't have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen to be in vogue. All you have to do is be a good average dancer, and anybody who spends the time and effort can accomplish this.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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