Success and Failure

You should emulate your heroes, but don't carry it too far. Especially if they are dead.

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You cannot produce a baby in one month by impregnating nine women.

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You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

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You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks.

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You are not what you think you are, you are not what they think you are, but you could be what you think they think you are.

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While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is admission to someone else.

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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur, in Success and Failure

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

Mao Tse-Tung, in Success and Failure

Wethern's Law: Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.

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Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

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Watch for big problems; they disguise big opportunities.

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Use soft words and hard arguments.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

William Markiewicz, Extracts of Existence, in Success and Failure

Oliver's Law: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.

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Official Project Stages: (1) Uncritical Acceptance. (2) Wild Enthusiasm. (3) Dejected Disillusionment. (4) Total Confusion. (5) Search for the Guilty. (6) Punishment of the Innocent. (7) Promotion of the Non-participants.

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Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.

Unknown, (motto of the Dutch Poet's Society), in Success and Failure

Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.

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