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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.
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It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
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Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
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So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.
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The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
The Conduct of Inquiry
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