"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."

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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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"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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"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness."

Oprah Winfrey, American Entertainer

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"My reputation grows with every failure."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave."

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"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."

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"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us."

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"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."

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"Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it."

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"In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis."

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"Manners are love in a cool climate."

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"It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style."

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"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."

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"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."

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