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Small: The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to
Charles F. Kettering
"The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work"
Charles F. Kettering, Inventor
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Small: Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might
Jerry B. Jenkins
"Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable"
Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist
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Small: People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages
Jerry B. Jenkins
"People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages"
Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist
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Small: Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. Its as though the more f
Bridget Riley
"Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind"
Bridget Riley, Artist
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Small: It doesnt matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to t
Charles F. Kettering
"It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again"
Charles F. Kettering, Inventor
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Small: The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it
Gustave Courbet
"The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it"
Gustave Courbet, Artist
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Small: Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick
Robert Indiana
"Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick"
Robert Indiana, Artist
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Small: Ive always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different h
Robert Indiana
"I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number"
Robert Indiana, Artist
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Small: Ive been lucky enough to fly to space twice
Chris Hadfield
"I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice"
Chris Hadfield, Astronaut
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Small: A word to the wise aint necessary - its the stupid ones that need the advice
Bill Cosby
"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice"
Bill Cosby, Comedian
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Small: I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could
Harriet Tubman
"I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other"
Harriet Tubman, Activist
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Small: I cant die but once
Harriet Tubman
"I can't die but once"
Harriet Tubman, Activist
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Small: I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger
Harriet Tubman
"I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land"
Harriet Tubman, Activist
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Small: Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us ever
J.B. Priestley
"Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
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Small: The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas
Alfred Noyes
"The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas"
Alfred Noyes, Poet
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Small: Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you dont have to tell anyone youre doing it
Roger McGough
"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it"
Roger McGough, Poet
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Small: Im terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems
Roger McGough
"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems"
Roger McGough, Poet
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Small: If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not becaus
Roger McGough
"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul"
Roger McGough, Poet
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Small: Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But b
Roger McGough
"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together"
Roger McGough, Poet
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Small: We shouldnt have got married, really. Shouldnt have got married. Too young. Not ready for it
Roger McGough
"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it"
Roger McGough, Poet
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Small: Life loves the liver of it
Maya Angelou
"Life loves the liver of it"
Maya Angelou, Poet
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Small: A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost
Marion C. Garretty
"A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost"
Marion C. Garretty, Poet
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Small: A light heart lives long
William Shakespeare
"A light heart lives long"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
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Small: If you dont have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building,
Alfred A. Montapert
"If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon"
Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher
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Small: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit
Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit"
Aristotle, Philosopher
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Small: The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely t
Albert Einstein
"The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
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Small: Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people
J.B. Priestley
"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
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Small: Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face
Albert Camus
"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
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Small: See into life, dont just look at it
Anne Baxter
"See into life, don't just look at it"
Anne Baxter, Actress
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Small: I wasnt afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure
Anne Baxter
"I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure"
Anne Baxter, Actress
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