"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."

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"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."

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"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?"

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"The shark had never begged Jonah in order to get him swallowed; Jonah's own actions took him into the shark's belly! Failure may not chase after you, but when you miss your way, you will rather go chasing failure!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"For one to succeed, one must be a assured of failure."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself."

Dennis Ross, American Diplomat

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"Remember that failure is an event, not a person."

Zig Ziglar, American Author

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"Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Rather than allowing your failures to define you, learn from your experience to do better next time."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

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"Failure is impossible."

Susan B. Anthony, American Activist

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"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."

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"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."

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"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."

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"If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons."

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"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

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"People can cry much easier than they can change."

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"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."

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