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"Failure is not the deterrent for the next try. Rather, it is information that empowers the next step."
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"Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence."
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"The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure."
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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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"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."
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"This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy."
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"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."
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"Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again."
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"Remember that failure is an event, not a person."
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"Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty."
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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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"Doing life without God is not doing life."
Faith
"Love in the service of self is greed in disguise."
Love
"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
Family
"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."
Ethics
"Happenstance is the myth of the simple mind, for it is the deliberate genius of God that what appears entirely disjointed always reveals itself to be stunningly seamless. And it is in reflecting on such stunning ingenuity that our faith becomes seamless."
Faith
"Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man."
Faith
"I am likely to fail if I have determined the cost as too high or my intelligence as too low. Yet, if I think about it, the real failure rests in believing either of these to be true."
Confidence
"Without a doubt, the most ingenious plan I could ever hope to devise would be to trade my plans for God's."
Faith
"I simply can't look into the heavens on a crisp starry night and somehow bring myself to believe that the gaping expanse that engulfs the whole of me is the product of chance happenstance. And neither can I believe that the gaping expanse that rests within me is anything less."
Existence
"God's genius is as wide as the cosmos, while by comparison our intelligence can find room on the head of a pin."
Knowledge
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