"Better to try and fail than not to try at all"

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Nicole Krauss

#Trying Quotes #Failing Quotes

“Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.”
“If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.”
“The judges are a big problem. Law is equal for everyone, except for them.”
“There is no better high than discovery.”
“Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.”
“There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave”
“I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity â€” not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour â€” but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good.”

Source : Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.16
“It took me a lifetime.”

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