If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Thomas H. Palmer

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Topic

Persistence Never giving up

Author

Thomas H. Palmer

Source

The Teacher's Manual

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

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Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Palmer, Thomas H. The Teacher's Manuel. Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1840.

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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths.

Ada Lovelace

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Topic
Artificial intelligence Computers

Author

Ada Lovelace
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
English
Time
1843 1840s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

King, Augusta Ada. Scientific Memoirs: Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of science and Learned Societies and from Foreign Journals. Vol. 3, London: R. and J. E. Taylor, 1843.

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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations-one can do either this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it-you will regret both.

Soren Kierkegaard

Either/Or

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Topic
Decisions and choices Regrets

Author

Soren Kierkegaard
Source
Either/Or
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Advice
Language
Danish
Time
1843 1840s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Victor Eremita]. Enten-Eller [Either/Or]. Vol. 2, Copenhagen: University bookshop, 1843.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life, translated by Alistair Hanny. Penguin Classics, 1992, pt. 2.