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- Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Don't fall before you're pushed.
- English Proverb
- You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
- Bible, New Testament, I Thessalonians
- Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
- Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936)
- Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
- Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
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