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“The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance”

Want Should Ends Failing Comfort Importance Costumes Usefulness Adornment

Book:Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer

Source: Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer

“The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.”

Way Firsts May Two Character Seems Form Ability Failing Greatness Succeed Importance Trials Spite Willingness Flawed Starting Over Measurement Two Ways Ability To Succeed

Author:Guy Finley

“When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.”

Problem Care Pay Failing Ideals Importance

Author:Alberto Giacometti

“While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.”

May Whole Failing Unique Importance Artwork

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.”

World Important Real Interest Interesting Failing Truth Is Importance Add Philosopher Being True Judgement Real World Propositions

Book:Process and Reality

Source: Process and Reality

“There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.”

Purpose Failing Victory Weak Importance Enormous

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.”

People Enough Failing Importance Conceit Great Ones Disheartened

Author:Elizabeth Wordsworth

“All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.”

Important Party Failing Importance Important Things Admirable Unimportant Partisans

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche