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As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. ↗

— Dave Parnas

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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. ↗

— Michael Jordan

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false. ↗

— Traian Basescu

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I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously. ↗

— Nina Bawden

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You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. ↗

— William Bennett

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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead. ↗

— Uwe Boll

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I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least I'd know that I tried. ↗

— Michelle Branch

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Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. ↗

— Robert Browning

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