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My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

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Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#because #business #cannot #deposits #failed

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

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Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity. ↗

— Jermaine Jackson

#answers #born #christianity #embraced #failed

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#failed #governments #indigenous #indigenous people #latin

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed. ↗

— Steve Jobs

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During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it. ↗

— Davy Jones

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I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. ↗

— Michael Jordan

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My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#below #brothers #career #dad #failed

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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