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• It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville, american autho
• It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. -- Herman Melville
• The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.
  -- Lloyd Jone...
• Two heads are better than one. -- John Heywood
• But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
  He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great....
• A wizard's reputation is his bond, or so the sages say.
  And, as all learned men know, a reputation is difficult to build, and all too easily besmirched....
• There was no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency .
  .. Inflation engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction....
• Ideas shape the course of history. -- John Maynard Keyne