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“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

“When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell.”

Edwin Lefèvre book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XXI, p. 249

“Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

This evokes a statement in "Death of a Hired Man" by Robert Frost: "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

"The Death of the Hired Man" (1914)
1910s

“Sometimes you have to take a hard decision and when you take such decision, you have to stand by it. It’s not everybody who sees what you are seeing.”

Ibukun Awosika (1962) Nigerian business magnate

Cited in " 8 business quotes from First Bank Chairperson Ibukun Awosika http://enterprise54.com/insights-from-ibukun-awosika-to-help-entrepreneurs-in-their-businesses/", 26 February 2013

“We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period.”

Jack Kerouac book Big Sur

Source: Big Sur

“Take my hand when you are worried
Take my hand when you're alone
Take my hand and let me guide you
Take my hand to lead you home.”

Ben Harper (1969) singer-songwriter and musician

Take My Hand.
Song lyrics, There Will Be a Light (2004)

“Here we are up in Caribou, which is my home as well as yours, but when you think about your home, you usually think about your house, your neighborhood, and your family, and when you look at this fragile blue ball from outer space, that’s home too. It’s everybody’s home.”

Jessica Meir (1977) Swedish-American marine biologist and astronaut

Source: As quoted in [Burns, Christopher, Astronaut from Aroostook County will soon go on her 1st spaceflight, https://bangordailynews.com/2019/04/17/news/aroostook/astronaut-from-aroostook-county-will-soon-go-on-her-1st-spaceflight/, 26 April 2019, Bangor Daily News, April 17, 2019]

“When everybody thinks you are nuts you finally just give in to their pressure and actually go nuts.”

Donald Miller book Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality

Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)

“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“When you succeed everybody wants to party with you. When you fail, just buy a bottle of scotch to take home.”

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