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"If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself."

Porsche, Dr. on failure    Share


"Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet."

Proverb, German on failure
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"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

Ruth, Babe on failure    Share

"Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."

Salak, John Charles on failure
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"Men do not fail; they give up trying."

Root, Elihu on failure
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"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet."

Schuller, Robert H. on failure
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"Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on failure
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"One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine."

Junius on facts    Share

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

Aristotle on education
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"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it."

Berlin, Irving on attitude
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"What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others."

Confucius on superiority
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"If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people."

Confucius on teacher
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"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

Adams, Henry Brooks on order    Share

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"Fear is the foundation of most government."

Adams, John on government
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"In politics the middle way is none at all."

Adams, John on politics
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"The happiness of society is the end of government."

Adams, John on society
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"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul."

Addison, Joseph on education
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"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."

Addison, Joseph on books - reading
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"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."

Aeschylus on suffering
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"I want to put a ding in the universe."

Jobs, Steve on achievement
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"One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things."

Miller, Henry on attitude
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"Books are not men and yet they stay alive."

Benet, Stephen Vincent on books - reading
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"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

Bradbury, Ray on books - reading
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"A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images."

Camus, Albert on books - reading    Share

"Never judge a book by its movie."

Eagan, J. W. on books - reading
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"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

Fusselman, W. on books - reading    Share

"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."

Joubert, Joseph on books - reading
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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius on wisdom
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"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius on wisdom
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"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."

Adams, John on education
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"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."

Montapert, Alfred A. on achievement
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time."

Beecher, Henry Ward on law and lawyers
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"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime."

Stirner, Max on law and lawyers
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"There is no education like adversity."

Disraeli, Benjamin on education
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"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on truth
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"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification."

Popper, Karl on science    Share

"Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets."

Wilde, Oscar on academia
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"The family is the nucleus of civilization."

Durant, William J. on family
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"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence."

Butler, Samuel on vice
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