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Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail. ↗

— Charles Edison

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause. ↗

— Wietse Venema

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The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. ↗

— James Tobin

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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that is what they failed to do. ↗

— David Trimble

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They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

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In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail. ↗

— Julie Walters

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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. ↗

— Earl Warren

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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. ↗

— Earl Warren

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