"Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings."
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"Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption."
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"Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong."
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"When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all."
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"I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work."
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"The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch."
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"You can't just place your faith and your hope in one system, because when that system fails you, what do you do?"
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"There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail."
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"And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear."
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"Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known."
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"The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience."
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"If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company."
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"A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good."
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"If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail."
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"Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers."
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"How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?"
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"One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it."
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"Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application."
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"Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is"
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"For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness."
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