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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"You gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far."

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Marcel Proust Novelist
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"It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life."

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Lauren Graham Actress
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"These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'"

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail."

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