Quotes with fails

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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Camille Paglia If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • P. J. O'Rourke In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Merton In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding himself.'' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Norman Macewan Many a man never fails because he never tries.
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  • Rene Dubos More can be learned from what works than from what fails.
    Rene Dubos
    French-American microbiologist, pathologist and environmentalist
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  • Barry McGee Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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  • Margaret Drabble Nothing fails like failure.
    The Millstone (2013) 81
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Kenneth Boulding Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
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  • Cher Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
    Cher
    American singer and actress (1946 - )
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  • Barbara Deming Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Theodore Parker Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Anthony Burgess The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Jean Cocteau The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • F. Swinnnerton The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.
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  • William Gilmore Simms The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.
    William Gilmore Simms
    American poet, novelist and historian (1806 - 1870)
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