"I'm really concerned that 'too big to fail' has become 'too big for trial'."
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"When people call me a role model it puts the fear of god into me, because I feel like I'm destined to fail."
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"A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail."
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"Stop thinking of failing."
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"The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail."
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"One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up."
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"Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write."
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"Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable."
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"Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world."
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"Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails."
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"Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail."
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"When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we are sure to fail. We can only win when we proceed from wholeness."
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"A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail."
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"Every now and then we're going to fail."
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"What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time."
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"When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated."
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"What's worth doing even if you fail?"
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"Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you're attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel."
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"In the end, failing to plan and planning to fail aren't so different."
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"I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it."
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