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"Any approach that doesn't acknowledge the Palestinians' legitimate rights is doomed to fail. That also applies to any strategy that ignores the fact that Hamas is a part of the Palestinian resistance."
"The Palestinian issue is a national, political issue. It's not to be seen as an economic issue that would be solved or addressed by some economic approach that makes the living standard of the people under occupation better. The Palestinian people are fed up with talks that have been going on for years. We are looking for peace, but we are not looking for a new peace process. This process will fail."
"Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu."
"Of course he wouldn't hesitate before trying something that had never been done before. He was Vlad Tepesh. How could he fail?"
"True beauty cannot fail to move the beholder"
"For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time."
"Fail miserably, achieve greatly!"
"We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying."
"Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy."
"The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind."
"It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it."
"We cannot fail in following nature."
"The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways"
"If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going."
"How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!"
"Show business is a great place to fail upward... and I guess that's what I've done."
"I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me."
"What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly."
"I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time."
