Quotes with fatal

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  • Al Franken Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Edmund Burke Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bertrand Russell Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Aldous Huxley One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John Fletcher Our acts, our angels are, or good or ill, I our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
    John Fletcher
    English playwright (1579 - 1625)
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  • Wyndham Lewis So-called ''austerity,'' the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. ''Pull in your belt'' is a slogan closely related to ''gird up your loins,'' or the guns-butter metaphor.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Jules Ellinger Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
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  • Don Shula Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
    Don Shula
    American football coach and player (1930 - )
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  • William Gilmore Simms Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
    William Gilmore Simms
    American poet, novelist and historian (1806 - 1870)
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  • Allan Bloom The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency, the belief that the here and now is all there is.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Henry James The fatal futility of Fact.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • John Stuart Mill The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing, when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
    On liberty (1859)
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ernest Dimnet The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • Samuel Johnson The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Brooks Atkinson The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Henry David Thoreau There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • James Russell Lowell There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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