Theo de Raadt Quotes
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
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My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.
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It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
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While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
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Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
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My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.
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I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
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Much of the securitization took the form of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) with senior credit tranches certified by rating agencies as AAA. It was the failure to properly price such risky assets that characterized the crisis.
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There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
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Risk management systems and controls may discourage or limit certain revenue-generating opportunities. Failure to ensure the independence of these functions from the revenue generators and risk takers has been shown to be dangerous, and this is something for which the board is accountable.
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I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.
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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
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It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.
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The Bush Doctrine is a prescription for permanent war for permanent peace, though wars are the death of republics.
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All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.
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I think that today, faith drives so much of our politics, that I thought, "If you don't talk about it, you are missing a whole big part of what is going on politically."
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Only failure makes us experts.
