“Failure is a state of mind. It’s like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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“Around 1995, after almost two decades of yo-yoing, I finally realized that being grateful for my body, whatever shape it was in, was the key to giving more love to myself.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“If the oppressor uses violence, the oppressed have no alternative but to respond violently. In our case it was simply a legitimate form of self-defense.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“There is always time for another last minute.”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“I was a young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“The 70s are very empty When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, good things will strive to dwell with't.”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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