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" Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. "

William Howard Taft

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" Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. "

" The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure. "

" If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success. "

" Writing is harder than acting. I enjoy acting for just the brevity with which you can be in the experience of doing it. Writing is kind of more satisfying in that you're creating a world and doing something that feels bigger, but it's very time consuming and has a higher threshold for failure. "

" I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. "

" Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. "

" For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. "

" Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems. "

" Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure. "

" The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. "

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" The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. "

" I'm a polarizing person, so people get caught up in hoping I fail. And just like success, failure is a perspective. "

" I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town. "

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" I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally. "

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

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" Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. "

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" Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. "

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" You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down. "

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