„He (the Professor) was a failure but did his best to hid it. One of his failings was that he could barely write, except in a twelfth century hand, in Latin, with abbreviations.“

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— T. H. White, buch Mistress Masham's Repose

Mistress Masham's Repose (1946)

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T. H. White

britischer Schriftsteller 1906 - 1964

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„His cheek was pale as marble, and as cold;
But his lip trembled not, and his dark eyes
Glanced proudly round. But when they bared his breast
For the death-shot, and took a portrait thence,
He clenched his hands, and gasped, and one deep sob
Of agony burst from him; and he hid
His face awhile—his mother's look was there.
He could not steel his soul when he recalled
The bitterness of her despair. It passed—
That moment of wild anguish; he knelt down;
That sunbeam shed its glory over one,
Young, proud, and brave, nerved in deep energy;
The next fell over cold and bloody clay....“

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— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

The Deserter from The London Literary Gazette (8th June 1822) Poetic Sketches. Second Series - Sketch the Sixth
The Improvisatrice (1824)

„A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. Fail to honor people, They fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, "We did this ourselves."“

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— Laozi, buch Tao Te Ching

A longer paraphrase of this quotation, with modern embellishments, is often attributed to Laozi: see "Misattributed" below.
Quelle: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 17

„His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.“

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— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Variante: He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
Quelle: The Great Gatsby

„His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.“

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— Terry Pratchett, buch Night Watch

Quelle: Night Watch

„Jeff Davis did his best when he fled from Richmond to make out of himself a reconstructed woman. He made such a bad failure, however, that he deems the work simply impossible.“

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— Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States of America 1808 - 1889

Republic: A Monthly Magazine (1873), p. 384

„Chamberlain's sins were not his intentions, but rather his ignorance and arrogance in failing to appraise the situation properly. And in that failure he was not alone.“

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— Joseph Nye American political scientist 1937

Quelle: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 4, The Failure of Collective Security and World War II, p. 111.

„Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills bears with his bare hands…“

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— John Flanagan Irish-American hammer thrower 1873 - 1938

Quelle: Erak's Ransom

„He who must be what he is, may curse his fate, but cannot change it; on the other hand, he who can transform himself has no one in the world but himself to blame for his failings, no one but himself to hold responsible for his dissatisfaction.“

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— Stanisław Lem, buch The Cyberiad

In "Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius", §3
The Cyberiad (1967)

„If a man wants to succeed in his work, that is, to achieve the anticipated results, he must bring his ideas into correspondence with the laws of the objective external world; if they do not correspond, he will fail in his practice. After he fails, he draws his lessons, corrects his ideas to make them correspond to the laws of the external world, and can thus turn failure into success; this is what is meant by “failure is the mother of success” and “a fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.“

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— Mao Zedong Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China 1893 - 1976

On Practice (1937)
Original: (zh-CN) 人们要想得到工作的胜利即得到预想的结果，一定要使自己的思想合于客观外界的规律性，如果不合，就会在实践中失败。人们经过失败之后，也就从失败取得教训，改正自己的思想使之适合于外界的规律性，人们就能变失败为胜利，所谓“失败者成功之母”，“吃一堑长一智”，就是这个道理。

„He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.“

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— Daniel Wallace American author 1959

Quelle: The Kings and Queens of Roam

„If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.“

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— George Lois American art director, designer and author 1931

„Attila the Hun might have broken off his engagement to her, but nobody except Attila the Hun, and he only on one of his best mornings.“

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— P.G. Wodehouse, buch A Few Quick Ones

A Few Quick Ones (1959)

„In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.“

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— John Grisham, buch The Testament

Quelle: The Testament

„He was decisive and wholehearted in everything he did, so intent non the task at hand that he never looked over his shoulder, even if his cloak got caught in a thorny bush. When he did turn to speak to somebody, he used to swing his entire body and dress him full face. When he shook hands, he was never the first to withdraw his own. He inspired such confidence that he was known as al-Amin, the Reliable One.“

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— Karen Armstrong author and comparative religion scholar from Great Britain 1944

Muhammad: A Prophet of Our Times
Muhammad: A Biography of The Prophet (2001)

„He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly.
"You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.“

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— John Boyne Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction 1971

Quelle: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

„Rather by instinct than by guidance, he turned to writing, and his professors or tutors occasionally gave his English composition a hesitating approval; but in that branch, as in all the rest, even when he made a long struggle for recognition, he never convinced his teachers that his abilities, at their best, warranted placing him on the rank-list, among the first third of his class. Instructors generally reach a fairly accurate gauge of their scholars' powers.“

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— Henry Adams journalist, historian, academic, novelist 1838 - 1918

The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

„I did not call him "Fritz." To me he remained always "Professor Hayek," despite his own graciousness in treating me as a peer. I shall not attempt to evaluate Professor Hayek's monumental contribution to our understanding of the events of this turbulent century, to the influence of his ideas on these events themselves or even to the development of economic theory in a strictly scientific sense.“

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— James M. Buchanan American economist 1919 - 2013

"I did not call him “Fritz”: Personal recollections of Professor F. A. v. Hayek." Constitutional Political Economy 3.2 (1992): 129-135.

„His clothes are dirty, but his hands are clean, and you're the best thing that he's ever seen.“

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— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

Song lyrics, Nashville Skyline (1969), Lay Lady Lay

„By the late eighteenth century, there is a sad and permanent decline in the quality of music written for young performers or beginners: one has only to compare Bach's Album for Anna Magdalena Bach and the Two-Part Inventions with anything that came later. No composer of importance between Bach and Schumann turned his hand to writing for children, and Schumann's essays came after his years of greatest inspiration for piano writing had gone. (Mozart is the odd exception, but then he was, in fact, almost incapable of writing really easy pieces: he no doubt believed that his Sonata in D Major, K.576, was easy, perhaps because all the hard passages in the first movement were in simple two-part counterpoint, one voice in each hand, but he was wrong.)“

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— Charles Rosen American pianist and writer on music 1927 - 2012

Quelle: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 6 : Chopin: Virtuosity Transformed

„No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.“

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— Groucho Marx American comedian 1890 - 1977

From his book Groucho and Me. It is a variation of a maxim by 17th-century French nobleman François de La Rochefoucauld: "In the adversity of our best friends, we often find something that is not displeasing." (Maxim 99 from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1665 edition.)

„He (the Professor) was a failure but did his best to hid it. One of his failings was that he could barely write, except in a twelfth century hand, in Latin, with abbreviations.“

T. H. White

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