"To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God."
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"Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure."
"It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses."
"The person who fails the most wins."
"Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else."
"I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right."
"Go ahead, fail. Try to avoid mistakes, though."
"We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership."
"The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails."
"If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail."
"Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail."
"The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression."
"People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term."
"When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in."
"The Heart that is not in love will fail the test."
"Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride."
"People want you to fail."
"You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail."
"Everything that fails brings you closer to what works."
"You have to be free to fail in this world."