Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/kgnv53qx · ★★☆☆ Fair (3070 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.
Francis Bacon, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/axfjdopk · ★★☆☆ Fair (143 ratings) · submitted 1997
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
tiny.ag/varfwyts · ★★☆☆ Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
tiny.ag/e97mpzt2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (327 ratings) · submitted 1997
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
tiny.ag/xuprbfr6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (98 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
tiny.ag/yespcqa6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (82 ratings) · submitted 1997
No pressure, no diamonds.
tiny.ag/koexwc3k · ★★☆☆ Fair (364 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
tiny.ag/oxoy2gsu · ★★☆☆ Fair (480 ratings) · submitted 1997
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
tiny.ag/p7nfwxgq · ★★☆☆ Fair (455 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
tiny.ag/950guyxd · ★★☆☆ Fair (479 ratings) · submitted 1997
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
tiny.ag/pxbmzdh5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (255 ratings) · submitted 1997
Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.
tiny.ag/vjl9ro7i · ★★☆☆ Fair (63 ratings) · submitted 1997
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
tiny.ag/dlqoy9f3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/cf7uraml · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
tiny.ag/rxx8g4si · ★★☆☆ Fair (67 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
tiny.ag/hd1r4yfi · ★★☆☆ Fair (88 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
tiny.ag/zv26ipgu · ★★☆☆ Fair (84 ratings) · submitted 1997
Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.
tiny.ag/impebxsb · ★★☆☆ Fair (78 ratings) · submitted 1997
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
tiny.ag/r5b2304k · ★★☆☆ Fair (85 ratings) · submitted 1997
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
tiny.ag/93thhysu · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
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