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Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist
“Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.”
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“Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: Contemplation and Action, 1902-1914, ed. Richard A. Rempel, Andrew Brink and Margaret Moran (Routledge, 1993, : Textual Notes, p. 555; also in Laurence J. Peter Quotations for our time (1978), p. 188
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Context: Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater self-restraint, would put a calm autumnal sadness in the place of the instinctive outcry of pain.
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
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John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court (1997)
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
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