#failures

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. ↗

— Charles J. Givens

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The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful. ↗

— Doc Hastings

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Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#age #away #early #early age #enough

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

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It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#dream #failures #forgiven #life #people

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen. ↗

— Keren Ann

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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. ↗

— John Dewey

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But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. ↗

— George Washington Carver

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