It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world
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It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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It's not disastrous, but it suggests pretty sluggish growth. The state unemployment rate has pretty much trended upward since May.
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When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
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Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
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I never understood exactly why people get engaged—The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened—but I feel that there's a g...
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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.
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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