"I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on success
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"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

Beckett, Samuel on failure
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"I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying."

Hopkins, Tom on failure
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"Never let formal education get in the way of your learning."

Twain, Mark on learning
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"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."

Twain, Mark on honor
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"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

Twain, Mark on gratitude
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"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Twain, Mark on ambition
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"Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."

Twain, Mark on fiction
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"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot."

Twain, Mark on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors."

Twain, Mark on invention and inventor
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"The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter."

Twain, Mark on laughter
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"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

Twain, Mark on laughter
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"A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants."

Twain, Mark on lies and lying
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"I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t."

Twain, Mark on lies and lying
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"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."

Twain, Mark on anger
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"That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers."

Twain, Mark on army and navy   

"It is difference of opinion that makes horse races."

Twain, Mark on opinions   

"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."

Twain, Mark on optimism
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"It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

Twain, Mark on faith
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."

Twain, Mark on exercise
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"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."

Twain, Mark on majority
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"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."

Allen, Woody on hollywood
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."

Allen, Woody on immortality
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"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."

Allen, Woody on reason
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"If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe."

Allen, Woody on risk
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"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."

Allen, Woody on sex
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"I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."

Allen, Woody on death
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on dress
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!"

Twain, Mark on example
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on dream
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"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"

Moore, George on reality
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"If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice."

Proverb, Chinese on advice
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