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"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."	William James "Will" Durant
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."	Thomas Alva Edison
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."	Thomas Alva Edison
"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."	Edward Eggleston
"Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success."	Michael Eisner
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."	George Eliot
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process."	Ted W. Engstrom
"Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall."	Epictetus
"Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does!"	Richard Exely
"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."	William Faulkner
"No man is a failure who is enjoying life."	William Faulkner
"Failure is success if we learn from it."	Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
"If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes."	Harrison Ford
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."	Henry Ford
"Management: An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed."	Paulson Frenckner
"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail."	Erich Fromm
"There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love."	Erich Fromm
"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."	John Kenneth Galbraith
"We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures."	William H(oward) Gass
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Abraham Lincoln	Aleister Crowley	Alice Kahn
Anais Nin	André Maurois	Andy Anderson
Annie Dillard	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov	Aristotle
Arsenio Hall	Augustus W. Hare	Author Unknown
A. E. Hotchner	Barbara Grizzuti Harrison	Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Berthe Morisot	Bill Cosby
Bruce Lee	Charles Caleb Colton	Charles Franklin Kettering
Clare Boothe Luce	Dorothea Broude	Dorthea Bragg
Douglas Couplan	Dr. Joyce	Edgar Albert Guest
Edward Eggleston	Elbert Hubbard	Epictetus
Erich Fromm	Flower A. Newhouse	Frances Watkins Harper
Francois Arouet	George Burns	George Eliot
Georges Clemenceau	George Crane	George Stanley McGovern
George Washington Carver	God's Little Instruction Book	Gérard Depardieu
Harold Loukes	Harrison Ford	Helen Gurley Brown
Henry Ford	Henry Anatole Grunwald	Herbert Kaufman
Herman Melville	Hoshang N. Akhtar	Humphrey Davy
H. Stanley Judd	James 2:10 Bible	James Albert Michener
James Arthur Baldwin	James Lane Allen	Jean Cocteau
Joe Moore	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Dewey
John Keats	John Burroughs	John Christian Bovee
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Kenneth Galbraith	Joseph Heller
Lao-Tzu	Lloyd Jones	Louise Nevelson
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Malcolm Stevenson Forbes	Martin Luther
Mary Bertone	Mary Catherine Bateson	Max Beerbohm
Michael Eisner	Michael J. Gelb	Mike Ditka
Moshe Arens	Napolean Hill	Nicholas Murray Butler
Norman Cousins	Orison Swett Marden	Paulson Frenckner
Paul Aubuchon	Philip	Philip Caldwell
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Ray Dickinson	Richard Exely
Richard Hofstadter	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Richard R. Grant
Robert Browning	Robert Albert Bloch	Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert F. Goheen	Robert Hewison	Robert Logan
Rod Hughes	Rosalynn Smith Carter	Rush Limbaugh
Samuel Beckett	Scott Adams	Siddha Nagarjuna
Sir James Matthew Barrie	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Sophia Loren
S(amuel) I(chiye) Hayakawa	Ted W. Engstrom	Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Alva Edison	Tim McMahon
Tom Hopkins	Toni Cade Bambera	Truman Capote
Ty Howard	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	Václav Havel
Warren G. Bennis	William Faulkner	William H(oward) Gass
William James "Will" Durant	William John Bennett	William Lloyd George
William S. Gilbert	Woody Allen	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
(Enoch) Arnold Bennett	(John) Calvin Coolidge	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling