Behind every successful launch, there are 100 interesting failures. 

We must stop thinking of failure as an end of something, and learn to see it as a natural part of progress. The first incarnation of a new idea may die, but the best ideas will find new lives. Behind every successful launch, there are 100 interesting failures. 

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    Frederick Good

    Sometimes rejected ideas that get buried in the ground sprout later and grow into large and fruitful trees. All the little ideas are the bricks that slowly, together, build a cathedral.

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