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Robert G. Allen
"As I became more mature I realized that failure is part of success."
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Source : Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
Robert G. Allen
#Mature Quotes
#I Realized Quotes
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“All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.”
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“It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.”
Source : Colson Whitehead (2012). “The Intuitionist: A Novel”, p.38, Anchor
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“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage,”
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“Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.”
Source : "Reparations for Gay Americans". The Detroit Free Press, April 07, 2009.
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“I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.”
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“[ If I wasn't making music ] I'd probably end up going to school, I never went to school. Or just give up and get my plumber's ticket and move back to Edmonton and become an alcoholic.”
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“Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.”
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“Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully”
