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This is a really important point to understand: when you aren’t trying to avoid failure, fear loses its foothold. The courage to take a chance is half the battle. The other half? Viewing failure as a teacher and not an enemy.
“I stood among the heaps of the dead and I knew — no, I felt that death is only a sound we make to signify the Thing we do not know.”
― Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
― Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
“The old has gone, the new has come, and the future couldn’t be more beautiful.”
― Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff
― Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff
“There never has been a country on this earth that has fallen except when that point was reached…where the citizens would say, ‘We cannot get justice in our courts.”
― Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
― Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
“How to balance individual achievement and celebrity with the notional equality of the elite and the principles of shared power had been a major dilemma throughout the Roman Republic.”
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
“The thing about walking closely with God is it has to be a minute-by-minute, day-by-day kind of relationship. No formula can suffice. You have to keep listening, keep following, keep being willing to act and to move on when it’s time.”
― Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff
― Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff
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