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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Fidel Castro
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It was our fault, and our very great fault—and now we must turn it to use.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
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Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes — they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.... The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don't give a damn.
Agatha Christie
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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
Max Beerbohm
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
William Saroyan
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Now life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.
Lewis Mumford
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The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place.
To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
Michael Korda
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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
Daniel Dennett
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Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
George Horace Lorimer
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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Edward Dowden
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The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
Audre Lorde
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Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.
Knute Rockne
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.
Thomas Sowell
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The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
Toni Cade Bambara
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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
Andrew Grove
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A word of caution: people will tell you that success can't buy you happiness. This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
Michael Korda
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Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills.
It is not the effort nor the failure tires.
The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
William Empson
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
Thomas Sowell
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren
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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
Anna Garlin Spencer
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
Madeleine L'Engle
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Anonymous
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