"Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled."

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Source : William Ramsay (1909). “Essays Biographical and Chemical”

William Ramsay

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“Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.”

Source : James Rickards (2014). “The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System”, p.14, Penguin
“My father and I, we can't soothe each other. I'm too young, he's too old, and we don't know how to talk anymore if we ever did”

Source : Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.245, Scholastic Inc.
“The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.”
“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
“... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical.”
“I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.”
“And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?”
“We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.”

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