"Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being."
-Doug Coupland
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"It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.“
-Doug Coupland
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"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."
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"If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure."
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"Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you."
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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
-Jim Rohn
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
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"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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