"It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the best. Pull your failures to pieces looking for the reason. Put your failure to work for you."

-- Thomas J. Watson

#Teacher Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Failure Quotes

“There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.”

Source : Hans Kung's Address at the opening of the Exhibit on the World's Religions at Santa Clara University, March 31, 2005.
“I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.”
“The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.”
“No one is friends with Hewitt and he does not worry me at all.”
“Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.”

Source : Cokie Roberts (1998). “We Are Our Mothers' Daughters”
“. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .”
“I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.”
“What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilisation is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilisation millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque”

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