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Failure Quotes
"African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans."
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"I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it."
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"Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying."
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"It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone."
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"The tension has worn us out. It is a deadly tension that feels as if a jagged knife blade is being scraped along the spine. Our legs won't function, our hands are trembling and our bodies are like thin membranes stretched over barely repressed madness, holding in what would otherwise be an unrestrained outburst of endless scream.s. We have no flesh, no muscle now."
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"There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object."
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"One who fears failure limits his activities."
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"If you don't believe others can end your suffering, why believe they can end your happiness?"
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."
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"Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection and just as likely to suffer from their failure to meet it as their stay-at-home counterparts."
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"At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives."
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"Every other science presupposes intelligence as already existing and complete: the philosopher contemplates it in its growth, and as it were represents its history to the mind from its birth to its maturity."
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"It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system."
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"Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections."
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"There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit."
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"We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be."
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"If you want to live a creative life, get efficient at failing."
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"Today's world is flooded with participation trophies. In an attempt to promote equality we have robbed our youth of the most growth-inducing aspect of competition, failing. If you want to be resurrected, you have to first be crucified. Everybody wants to be reborn, but no one is willing to die. Losing, in the context of whatever arena it may be, is a microcosmic death. When we learn from our failures and grow because of them, we are reborn."
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"Improvements enable adapting to new situations."
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"The real failure is not the one who falls down, it's the one who refuses to get up."
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"Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!"
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"Always take failure as an opinion never as an option."
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"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."
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"His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out for success, and his duty was therefore to ensure only that he failed in the correct and acceptable fashion."
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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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"Failure is not an option, winning or learning are the options."
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"Don't be afraid to fall, for every fall teaches you how to rise."
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"The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it."
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"Greed squeezes your dreams into a portable size, so that failure can easily carry them to dump somewhere."
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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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"If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure."
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"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."
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"Failure does not connote that you achieved nothing. It denotes that you are on an adventure towards finding what will eventually advance you to the realization of your goals."
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