"A burnt finger remember the fire."

-- Alice Walker

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“Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous!”
“In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.”
“I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.”
“I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.”
“A lot of talent, a lot of the currency that movies used to have, has spilled over into TV. People talk about TV the way they used to talk about movies and, as much as I hate to say it, the way they used to talk about books.”
“Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against the ambition of kings, the exclamation should be directed against the principle of such governments; and instead of seeking to reform the individual, the wisdom of a nation should apply itself to reform the system.”
“If you’re unhappy at the amount of sexual opportunity in your life, don’t blame the women. Instead, make sure they have equal access to power, wealth, and status. Then watch what happens.”
“I've concluded that I learned far more from my failures than from my successes.”

Source : June Hunt (2013). “Success Through Failure”, p.7, Aspire Press

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