"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure."

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"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to 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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Charles Kettering, American Inventor

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

Henry Ford, American Businessman

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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?"

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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

Rob Liano, American Author

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"There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free."

Freedom

"For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it."

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"If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat."

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"Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him."

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"Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it."

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"He raised himself on his hands and looked at Irene's face: the nudity of that feminine body had risen into her face, the body had reabsorbed it, as nature reabsorbs forsaken gardens."

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"I confused things with their names: that is belief."

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"Acting is happy agony."

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"He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being."

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"I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it."

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