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"If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know." »Thomas Wolfe
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"If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know." »Thomas Wolfe
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"He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great." »Herman Melville
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"You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try." »Homer Simpson
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"Let me beg for your mercy if I have failed to earn your respect." »Jason DeBruin, The poem "Temporary Shame"
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"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure." »Chinese
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"I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that dont work." »Thomas Alva Edison
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"Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times,' and what happens when he says, 'I'm a failure.'" »S Hayakawa
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"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself." »Georges Clemenceau
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"Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed." »Paulson Frenckner
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"No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive." »Thorstein Veblen
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"If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen
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"We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." »James Arthur Baldwin
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"We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed." »Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed." »Kin Hubbard
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"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed." »Kin Hubbard
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"If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen
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"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three." »Alice Kahn
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"This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people." »C. S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity
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"The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded." »Dr. Dale E. Turner
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"Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass." »LaDawnna Burnett, (1975-), Letters on Ethics
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"Shame is that intrinstic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass." »LaDawnna Burnett (1975 - ), Letters on Ethics
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"Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory." »Orison Swett Marden
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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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"He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed." »William James
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"There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end." »Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
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"For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed." »Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech
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"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,but with what it is still possible for you to do." »Pope John XXIII
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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible." »William Faulkner
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