Only gases change volume in this way, and all gases become liquids before the temperature falls as low as -273 degrees Celsius. The ostentatious patrons of the arts who only approve something after a recognized consensus of approval has been accorded to it are usually far behind the times in their tastes. We concern ourselves with why an act is performed rather than with how it is executed. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. One who has never failed somewhere cannot be great.
Failure is the true test of greatness.
There are now no camels in the western desert of the United States. In the late 1850s, the War Department purchased eighty camels from the Arab countries and used them as beasts of burden in the American desert. Beneath their individuality, there is a tremendous similarity among all unhappy people. Focusing attention upon this similarity, one senses the role of social factors in human behavior. What people are, say, or do is not determined alone by the physical structure, but also by the structure of the society in which they live and act.