"All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico."
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"It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary."
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"Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them."
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"Indeed, it would be great if we could all be liberated through reason, but I think it only gets us part of the way. After all, someone may have a very logical view, but for other reasons we may still fail to hear what that person says, or we may turn their words around so that they are understood to say the opposite. The task is really to find ways of addressing deep-seated forms of fear and aggression that make it possible to hold to manifestly inconsistent views without quite acknowledging them."
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"The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure."
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"The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel."
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"There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail"
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"Business cannot prosper in societies that fail."
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"Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me."
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"Appear to know only this--never to fail nor fall."
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"As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail."
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"We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong."
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"Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing."
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"Either one fails in one's art or in one's life."
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"I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning."
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"My books are friends that never fail me."
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"Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally."
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"When your art fails, make better art."
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"The reason so many people fail to achieve success is because they fail to fail enough times."
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"Nothing fails like success. Because when you are at the top, it's so easy to stop doing the very things that brought you to the top."
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