"Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure."

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"Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop 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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"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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"Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

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