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Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

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There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her. ↗

— Lorenzo Snow

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Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves. ↗

— Lawrence Kasdan

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And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely. ↗

— Derek Luke

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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals. ↗

— Abu Abbas

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We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past. ↗

— Paul Ryan

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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 The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false.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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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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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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