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A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things… — Bill Gates
I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If… — Warren Buffett
Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that system fails victims… — Jaclyn Friedman
Celeborn is more fixed in his beliefs and methods than Galadriel, which is his failing, perhaps. As a team, they work well, although apparently they… — Marton Csokas
Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear… — Hanif Kureishi
Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it produces is deep… — Hari Kunzru
We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail — Greil Marcus
If we become skilled in giving ourselves empathy, we often experience in just a few seconds a natural release of energy which then enables us… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet — Robert Hunter
When people tell me they will give it a try, I say don’t bother, you have already decided to fail. It takes more than a… — Joel Fuhrman
Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which… — Robert Greene
Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or… — Robert Greene
Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute… — Alfred P. Sloan
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits. — Anna Pavlova
An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust. Samson is not alone in the history of man in… — Watchman Nee
The biggest challenge is how to get people to wake up and realize this is a one-shot deal. If we fail, we are witting participants… — Nathan Lewis
The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act… — Joseph J. Romm
Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no. — E E Cummings
Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race. — Madeleine L'Engle
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.… — Ayn Rand
I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things… — Richard Bausch
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself. — George Berkeley
If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly. — Edward Albee
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as… — Edvard Munch

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