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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures.
Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are fingerposts on the road to achievement....
Every great or original writer in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he must be relished.
-- Wordsworth...
Every great philosophy is unconscious autobiography.
Every great scientific truth goes through three state
First people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before...
Every group has a couple of experts. And every group has at least one idiot.
Thus are balance and harmony (and discord) maintained....
Every guilty person is his own hangman. -- Seneca
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in a...
Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions,--as the habit of walking, by walking
of running, by running. -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- How the Semblances of Things are...
Every hand has only one finger to put a ring on. You've got only two hands. So?
Every hero becomes a bore at last. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Representative Me

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