"Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen."

-- Phillip Adams

#Trying Quotes #Miserable Quotes #Failing Quotes

“The education that you give to the upper classes will not uproot idolatry and prejudice, for it is amongst the masses that the error and prejudice will always maintain their power, and while you do not uproot those prejudices from the hearts of the masses, a handful of educated Hindus will never be able successfully to reform the country.”

Source : Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London, May 24, 1870.
“Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.”
“If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."”

Source : Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1990). “Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music”, p.99, Princeton University Press
“The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost exclusively through plants. Since light is the driving force of every cell in our bodies, that is why we need green plants.”
“opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked.”
“After mastery comes artistry and not before.”
“Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society.”

Source : "What Has Government Done to Our Money?". Book by Murray Rothbard, 1980.
“If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders.”

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