A Quote by Allen Wheelis

Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to find the course of human events to a final end. It is not reason that has promised to eliminate risk in human undertakings; it is the emotional needs of men.

Allen Wheelis

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Absolute Achieve Always Attempt Certainty Clearly Course Eliminate Emotional Emotional Needs End Events Failed Final Find Human Men Needs Promised Reach Reason Risk Undertakings

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Allen Wheelis
Psychoanalyst
1915 - June 14, 2007

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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

Adam Draper

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