Failed Quotes
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If you have never failed you have never lived.
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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.
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That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college kids that they're listening to hip music - but it's just blues twisted a new way - while I'm playing for the college kid's parents.
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It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.
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You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.
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We're now on the precipice of having a potentially much better economy, but the last thing we need to do is to go back to the policies that failed us in the first place.
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We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.
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The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.
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Compensatory education has been tried and it apparently has failed.
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Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.
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I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've been trained to write, I do that as a defense against total despair. And seeing people like you, who are actively engaged in trying to salvage pieces of our wrecked lives, gives me hope that after all we are not alone.
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Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed.
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I have to try and uplift the standard of living for the people in Zambia. If I cannot do that, I will have failed.
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It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I’ve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.
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The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment.
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We weren’t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. It’s open source and it’s free. We weren’t trying to take over the world; we had kind of modest goals, and it was OK if it failed. We were a lot freer to make risky decisions. If you can afford to do things that way, it’s just so much better. You’re not thinking about venture capitalists or marketing or sales. Just product and users, all day every day.
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Poets are band leaders who have failed.
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It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that.
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If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.
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No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
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I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least Id know that I tried.
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Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.
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Investigations, meditations, careers, relationships were much the same, he mused. They failed because no one thought to ask the right question.
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Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to construct reliable phylogenies evolutionary family trees. In this it has utterly failed.
