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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.

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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.

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Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.

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