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Letter "A" » a few
«A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.»
Author: Alexis Carrel
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a few, error, lead, observation, observations, reasoning, Truth by Reason
«A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.»
«By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.»
«Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
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Perseverance
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«And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you does not make you any saner. Doomed, eh?»
«. . . it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
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«Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.»
«A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.»
Author: Saul Bellow
(Novelist)
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«A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Mankind
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«And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Thought
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age of, Age of Man, age of the, a few, passing, season
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