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" Sometimes the best gain is to lose. "

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" Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. "

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" Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure. "

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

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" Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success. "

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

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" My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down. "

" Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. "

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

" I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure. "

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" Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. "

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" Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. "

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