"If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible."

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Source : Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”

#Mistake Quotes #Failure Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.”

Source : Franz Boas (1969). “Race and Democratic Society”, p.20, Biblo & Tannen Publishers
“I'm terminally dissatisfied. That's probably part of being an artist.”
“Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.”
“The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.”

Source : Edgar Wilson Nye's stand-up line, 1888.
“There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.”
“Mamma," whispered Rannoch as he nestled by her side, "what is man?" Bracken looked into her calf's eyes. "Man? Man is something you must always fear." "But why must I fear him?" asked Rannoch. "Because, my little one...man is cruel and cold. He eats up everything he touches. He enslaves Lera and breaks the laws of the forest. Because, Rannoch, he is the only creature that hunts without need.”
“I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.”
“But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?”

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