A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

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"I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life."

- B. F. Skinner

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"A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

- B. F. Skinner

Persistence

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

- B. F. Skinner

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"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."

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"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work."

- Thomas Edison

Failure

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

Failure

"Trying is the first step toward failure."

- Homer Simpson

Failure

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

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