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• At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities,… — Albert Camus
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• The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures. — Bill Courtney
• Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is… — Susan Sontag
• Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. — John Dewey
• An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. — Charles Kettering
• You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to… — Orison Swett Marden
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