"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."

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"Ambition is the last refuge of the 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."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

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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."

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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"Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty."

Lillian Hellman, American Dramatist

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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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"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."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

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"Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life."

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"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."

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"In married life three is company and two none."

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"Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."

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"For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood."

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"Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth."

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"God and other artists are always a little obscure....."

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"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."

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"Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development."

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"I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb."

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