Famous quotes containing the words actual, failure and/or rate:
“The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it becomes for us the most real thing in the actual world, although for us it is the elusive goal of an infinite quest.”
—Josiah Royce (18551916)
“Sitting by a lamp more often brings
Not peace, but other things.
Beyond the light stand failure and remorse....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“You are more than entitled not to know what the word performative means. It is a new word and an ugly word, and perhaps it does not mean anything very much. But at any rate there is one thing in its favor, it is not a profound word.”
—J.L. (John Langshaw)
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