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    Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

by Kenneth Boulding Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to read more

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

by Francis Bacon Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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He without fear is king of the world.

He without fear is king of the world.

by E. E. Eddison Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!

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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

by Rainer Maria Rilke Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of read more

Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

by Roger Bacon Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.

I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.

by Eric Davis Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

by Mahatma Gandhi Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that, either.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that, either.

by Jack Benny Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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