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Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.

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We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.

Angel, Angels, Apes, Fallen, Psychology, Risen
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Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours.

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But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

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Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

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We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

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There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.

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