"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"
- Charles F. Kettering
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"The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work"
- Charles F. Kettering
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"The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution"
- Charles F. Kettering
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"The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try"
- Charles F. Kettering
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"He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God"
- Saadi
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"The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich"
- Saadi
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"Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance"
- Saadi
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"Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?"
- Judith Viorst
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"The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it"
- Gustave Courbet
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"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax"
- Charles F. Kettering
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"Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable"
- Jerry B. Jenkins
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"People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages"
- Jerry B. Jenkins
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"Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind"
- Bridget Riley
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"It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again"
- Charles F. Kettering
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"I work with nature, although in completely new terms"
- Bridget Riley
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"In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active"
- Bridget Riley
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"As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play"
- Bridget Riley
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