"Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being."

Failure, Being, State

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"Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being."

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"The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

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"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."

Charles Kettering, American Inventor

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"Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again."

Henry Ford, American Businessman

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"Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty."

Lillian Hellman, American Dramatist

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"The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?"

Aldrich Ames, American Criminal

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"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is."

Rob Liano, American Author

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"To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born."

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"Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

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"Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room."

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"You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself."

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"If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis."

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"One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do."

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"I think the killers get far too much attention."

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