"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
-John Dewey
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"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.“
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"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
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"To me faith means not worrying."
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"Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home."
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"Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis."
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
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"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."
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