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Failure Quotes by John Updike
- All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.
- You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
- The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
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- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. — Marcus Aurelius
- Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius
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- Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. — Charles Babbage