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" Our country's got a sin problem, and I believe if these politicians in Washington would recognize the moral failure of so many of their policies that maybe we could fix it. "

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" The draconian spirit that seeks to enhance penalties and to lower the age at which juveniles will be tries as adults, is part of the 'whole cloth' of three strikes. Our failure to address the depair of our inner-city youth is only delayed by our over-confidence in a stance that is 'tougher than thou.' "

Greg Boyle

Will

Failure

Spirit

" Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure. "

" I always feel like a vague failure in L.A. - it always makes me feel like I should somehow be different than I am. And I don't know why. "

Greta Gerwig

Know

I Am

" All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence. "

" Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes. "

" All war represents a failure of diplomacy. "

" We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success. "

" It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail. "

" I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure. "

" To err is human, but it feels divine. "

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

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

" War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies. "

" You have to look at what a person does with his life. Anyone can say that he's a Christian, but you look at how they live. "

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

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

" Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure. "

" Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. "

Douglas Coupland

Music

Kind

" Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure. "

" Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything. "

" Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you. "

" Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets. "

" A minute's success pays the failure of years. "

" 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 think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer. "

" In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse. "

" I can easily be lying in the gutter with someone kicking mud in my face tomorrow as easily as I can float in the clouds with angels sprinkling fairy dust in my hair. So, I make an effort to treat both success and failure equally. "

" Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure. "

" Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. "

" The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye. "