"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

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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

Failure, Nations, Security, United

"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

Failure, Cause, Disgrace, Man

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

Henry Ford, American Businessman

Failure, Opportunity, Learning, Success

"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

Failure, Theater, Writing

"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

Failure, Victory, Help, Information

"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

Failure, Community, Crime, End

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

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Failure, Man, Old

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

Rob Liano, American Author

Failure, Action, Success, Inaction

"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."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Failure, Destiny, Purpose, Life

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

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

Failure, Paradox, Success, Learning

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"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Certainty

"He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."

Society

"Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind."

Communication

"Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story."

Literature

"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."

Nation

"For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that and "Chuck 'im out the brute." But it's "Savior of 'is country " when the guns begin to shoot."

History

"Yet there be certain times in a young man's life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood."

Life

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier."

Woman

"San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty."

Beauty

"A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke."

Woman