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When success turns a man's head he faces failure
Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the self has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
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The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.
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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
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The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
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The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
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