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

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

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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?"

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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."

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"The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency."

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"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"

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"Men get laid, but women get screwed."

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"The trouble with children is that they're not returnable."

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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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"Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh."

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"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."

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"There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings."

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"I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum."

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