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"Success and failure are equally disastrous." »Tennessee Williams
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"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." »J. K. Galbraith
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"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one." »Agatha Christie
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"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one." »Agatha Christie, Autobiography (1977)
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"There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage." »La Rochefoucauld
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"I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass" »Lewis Mumford
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"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous." »Margot Fonteyn
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"Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position." »Bertrand Russell
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