So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
Charles Horton Cooley
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- An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
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- Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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