"Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't."

R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor

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"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder."

Paul J. Meyer, American Businessman

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"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake."

Nelson Boswell, American Author

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"I made a lot of mistakes, one of them was to promise. I must stop promise, the promise is like something which you in everytime in any case you must do what you said you will do! - That's why I hate it!"

"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

"Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.O hateful error, Melancholy's child,Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of menThe things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,But kill'st the mother that engendered thee."

"Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder."

"Never mind the mistakes. One day they will become your most prized possessions."

"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."

"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."

"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."

"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake."

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"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

"Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery."

"Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease."

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

"I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself."

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"What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities."

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