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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
American behaviorist

Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. He was a professor of psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

B. C. Forbes
American journalist

Bertie Charles Forbes was a Scottish-American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

B. C. Forbes
American journalist

Bertie Charles Forbes was a Scottish-American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine.
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You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.

Ayn Rand
Russian-American writer and philosopher (1905–1982)

Alice O'Connor, better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-born American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful and two Broadway plays, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, until her death in 1982, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own periodicals and releasing several collections of essays.
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Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

Ayelet Waldman
American-Israeli writer

Ayelet Waldman is an Israeli-American novelist and essayist. She has written seven mystery novels in the series The Mommy-Track Mysteries and four other novels. She has also written autobiographical essays about motherhood. Waldman spent three years working as a federal public defender and her fiction draws on her experience as a lawyer.
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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

Augustus William Hare
British writer

Augustus William Hare was a British writer who was the author of a history of Germany.
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The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Audre Lorde
US-American writer and activist

Audre Lorde was an African-American writer, womanist, radical feminist, professor, and civil rights activist. She was a self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," who "dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia."
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It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

Arthur C. Danto
American art critic and philosopher (1924-2013)

Arthur Coleman Danto was an American art critic, philosopher, and professor at Columbia University. He was best known for having been a long-time art critic for The Nation and for his work in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of history, though he contributed significantly to a number of fields, including the philosophy of action. His interests included thought, feeling, philosophy of art, theories of representation, philosophical psychology, Hegel's aesthetics, and the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre.
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The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

Arthur C. Brooks
American policy analyst and musician

Arthur C. Brooks is a Harvard professor, social scientist, best-selling author, public speaker, and columnist at the The Atlantic, who specializes in the science of human happiness by blending social science, music, diverse faith traditions, and philosophy. He states that his mission is "lifting others up and bringing them together." He is a former professional French horn player, military operations research analyst, and think tank president.
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Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

Arsene Wenger

Arsène Charles Ernest Wenger is a French former football manager and player who is currently serving as FIFA's Chief of Global Football Development. He was the manager of Arsenal from 1996 to 2018, where he was the longest-serving and most successful in the club's history. His contribution to English football through changes to scouting, players' training, and diet regimens revitalised Arsenal and aided the globalisation of the sport in the 21st century.
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