We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
-- Samuel Smiles
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I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
-- Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
-- Tom Robbins
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Pay no attention to appearing. Being is alone important.
-- Andre Gide
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-- H. L. Mencken
At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all."
The paradoxical challenge today is that companies are never sure they're asking the right questions, confronting the real problems... The Net is not as much a way to nail down definitive answers as it is a place to ask deeper questions -- not a solution, but a larger conundrum.
-- Chris Locke
The problem, when solved, is simple.
-- Freshman Chemistry Lab
Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
-- Oprah Winfrey
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By nature's kindly disposition, most questions which are beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
-- George Santayana
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-- Mark Twain
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais
If you can't share information in simple terms with the people who will live with the consequences, then it's useless clinically. That is the universal test of meaning in clinical practice.
-- Richard Lehman (@richardlehman1)
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When we want to incentivize rich people, we give them money. When we want to incentivize poor people, we take it away.
-- Anonymous
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The subjects that were dearest to the examiners were almost invariably those I fancied least... I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not to well in examinations.
-- Winston Churchill
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
-- John Dewey
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