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«Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.»
«I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison (Inventor) | Keywords: failed
«I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison (Inventor) | Keywords: failed
«My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.»
«I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.»
«It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed»
Author: Kin Hubbard (Humorist, Writer) | About: Happiness | Keywords: failed, poverty
«Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.»
«Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.»
«Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.»
«I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.»

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