"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."

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"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."

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"Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?"

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"Don't you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there's a huge possibility you'll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn't that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don't you find that scary?"

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"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."

John Burroughs, American Author

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"Failure is inevitable. It teaches us things about ourselves that we could have learnt any other way."

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"Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems."

John Mica, American Politician

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"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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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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"But instead I am applying for a job as an elf. Even worse than applying is the very real possibility that I will not be hired, that I couldn't even find work as an elf. That's when you know you're a failure."

David Sedaris, American Writer

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