Clock Quotes

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

- Henry Ford

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I have a quote for you. It comes from Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan , where it is the opening of chapter 13 (pg 201 in the hardback copy I got from the library) :

It is not a good habit to stuff one's text with quotations from prominent thinkers, except to make fun of them or provide a historical reference. They 'make sense,' but well-sounding maxims force themselves on our gullibility and do not always stand up to empirical tests.