"The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success."

-- Thomas A. Edison

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“Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!”

Source : "Patrick Duffy Is the Girl Next Door's Dad". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. February 3, 2006.
“To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.”

Source : Helmut Friedel, Tina Dickey, Hans Hofmann, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München (1998). “Hans Hofmann: Wunder Des Rhythmus und Schönheit Des Raumes : [exhibition at the Städtische Galerie Im Lenbachaus in Munich, from 23 April to 29 June 1997, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, from 12 September to 2 November 1997 ]”, p.7, Hudson Hills
“Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is a man made disease.”
“Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.”

Source : "What We Observed in Teaching General Semantics". Et cetera, 61, pp. 482-486, 2004.
“We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.”
“Can mortal prayers ensure immortal happiness?”

Source : Sophia Lee (2015). “The Recess”, p.128, University Press of Kentucky
“Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.”
“Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money.”

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