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" I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians. "

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" It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned. "

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" We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition. "

Edward McKendree Bounds

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" I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy. "

" The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. "

" I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed. "

" Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. "

" Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things. "

" I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure. "

" Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure. "

" You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it. "

" The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs. "

" The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics. "

" There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. "

" When I talk to young people, I always tell them the biggest lesson I learned was that you shouldn't care about the outcome. If it fails, it fails. Every failure will groom you for your next big reward. "

" 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 failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. "

" No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad. "

" I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.' "

" Do not wallow in your failure. Spend some time grieving, learn from it, and then move on. Constantly replaying what went wrong will not benefit you. Get involved in another company, another cause, another relationship. "

" Always, when I do a play, there's got to be an equation of risks and potential failure. When you're working on a new play, it's like, 'How the hell do I do this, and do we have the time?' All of these huge questions engage, hopefully, the smartest part of me. And then when you're doing a revival, I went, 'Well, somebody's already solved it.' "

" Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. "

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

" Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change. "

" It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things. "

" I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now. "

" By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure. "

" I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure. "

" Riskin went into directing and made a film with Cary Grant which applied to the letter all the ideas which had made his comedies famous. It had everything except that little something - and the film was a failure. "

" Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure. "

Stanley A. McChrystal

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" One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. "