"Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage."
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"Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children."
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"All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self."
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"Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so."
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"In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail."
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"He who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist."
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"Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us."
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"Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws."
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"That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject."
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"Anything I’ve ever attempted, I was always willing to fail."
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"As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth."
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"Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other."
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"The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration."
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"I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb."
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"The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing."
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"We all have our strengths and our failings."
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"The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day."
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"Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail."
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"It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well."
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"Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe."
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