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" Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. "

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" Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake. "

" It is easy to lay the blame on successive governments for failing to address health as a fundamental right for the Indian people. But the real tragedy is that we, the people of India, have not taken our government to task for this catastrophic failure. "

" Success is never final, but failure can be. "

" For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like. "

" Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. "

" Failure is success if we learn from it. "

" I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at. "

" But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. "

Ernest Hemingway

" My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization. "

" Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. "

" Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well. "

" Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. "

Florence Scovel Shinn

" For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period. "

Daniel Berehulak

" It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. "

Charlotte Whitton

" There's no right or wrong, success or failure. "

" Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster. "

" Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. "

" There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. "

" The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth. "

" Mistakes are the portals of discovery. "

" Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. "

" Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. "

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" A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that. "

" The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat. "

" There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing. "

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" Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. "

" Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not want the government to make the tax system more progressive, to impose punishing taxes on the rich, in order to give the money to them. Redistribution feels demeaning. It feels like being labeled a failure. "

Robert J. Shiller

" In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront. "