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" If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes. "

Peter Diamandis

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" One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images. "

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" American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. "

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" Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship. "

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" Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. "

" Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD... over and over again. "

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" One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it's fear of failure, fear of being overtaken. "

" Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. "

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" All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. "

Jean-Paul Sartre

" Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant. "

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" You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism. "

" The truest drive comes from doing what you love. "

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" I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid. "

" I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more. "

" Success unshared is failure. "

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" Not failure, but low aim, is crime. "

James Russell Lowell

" The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. "

" Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable. "

" No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. "

" Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. "

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" It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. "

" Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up. "

" It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and classify and catalog them relatively easily. But now, with a new generation of robotic telescopes scanning the skies constantly and producing millions of images, that's become next to impossible. "

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

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" You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one's watching, whether it's an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city. "

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" I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. "

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" What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference. "

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" Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. "