"Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure."

Failure, Students, Teachers

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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."

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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?"

Aldrich Ames, American Criminal

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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."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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

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

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"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."

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