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"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."
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"There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see."

"I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure."

"Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?"

"I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win."

"Admire the efforts of a failure like you admire the beauty of a sunset."

"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure."

"Don't you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there's a huge possibility you'll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn't that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don't you find that scary?"

"If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless."

"There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house."
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"Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need."


"If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine."


"He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose centre is the conjoined Hog, Snake, and Dove (Ignorance, Anger, and Lust), and whose compartments are all the heavens and hells, and all the chances of human life."


"I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards."
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