Fails Quotes

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Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and… — Ray Lankester
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2… — Ronald Fisher
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would… — Wilfred Trotter
When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it. He will never be as… — John Owen
Any anti-bullying scheme, initiative or policy which fails to mention accountability for the bullies is likely to meet with little, and often no, success — Tim Field
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent… — Lyndon B. Johnson
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former… — Thomas Jefferson
I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't… — Charlton Heston
Though negotiations are a rough game, you should never allow them to become a dirty game. Once you've agreed to a deal, don't back out… — Victor Kiam
The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents… — Mahatma Gandhi
Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their… — Rudolf Hess
When sincerity fails, the offer of money usually works. — Mark Fuhrman
Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection… — Chen-Ning Yang
Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that… — Michel de Montaigne
The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to… — James Bovard
Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the… — Pope John Paul II
Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great, but fails, is a total failure. Why? Because he can always be assured… — Robert H. Schuller
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure. — Kenneth E. Boulding
The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills. — Corrie Ten Boom

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