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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out!

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures 6 and 7 (1902).
-- William James, (Jan 11 1842-1910), US philosopher, psychologist; He was one of the founders of pragmatism and wrote The Meaning of Truth, 1909.

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