“I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to mis-attribute this quote to Voltaire.”
– Avram Grumer
(The original quote upon which this quip is based was actually written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall under the pseudonym S[tephen] G. Tallentyre in “The Friends of Voltaire” in 1906, as her own summary of her idol’s attitude.)
“Education will never be as expensive as ignorance.”
– Fortune cookie at a local Chinese restaurant
The gap between success and failure in a pursuit is sometimes as broad as the gap between being smart and being wise. The achievement of it is not always real success, and an unworthy goal can destroy its pursuer. Along the way, the correct discernment of when to persist and when to quit is also needed at each stepping stone, and so the journey itself is often the success, not the end attainment. Flawed by our very natures, simply learning from our mistakes and failures can become our unexpected pot of gold. Still, there are those who tend to finish what they start, and those who
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