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«We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
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Failure
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assures, experimentation, exploration, fumble, fumbles, fumbling, narrowing, obstacle, prevents, progressive, The Progressive
«We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.»
Author: Paul Valery
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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Self-love
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«What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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Literature,
Sex
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gap, in ordinary, opening, pornographic, prevents, wedge, wedges
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