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The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.

~George Edmund Street

Topics: Ancient Been Between Churches Country Difference Discover Distinct Failed Fault Marked Me Men Models Most Ought Seems Taken Them Towns

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The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

~George Edward Moore

Topics: Critics Failed Lot Remembered Understand

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The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

~George Jackson

Topics: Black Blacks Columns Estimated Etc Failed Fred Hampton Nation Obituary Reading Register Repression Savage Which

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America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.

~George Kaiser

Topics: Achieving America Contract Equal Equal Opportunity Failed Goal Opportunity Social Social Contract

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For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.

~George Sutherland

Topics: Because Carved Epitaph Failed Forth Freedom Hand Lost Memory Saddest Saving Still Stretch Time Vanished Which While

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And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

~George Takei

Topics: About Achievements Again Also Certainly Country Failed Glorious Happening Ideals Important Keep Know Me Nation Order Seems Where

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

~Georges Clemenceau

Topics: Failed He Himself Interesting Know Life Man Primarily Sign Surpass Tried Well

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If I'm astonished by what I've done, then I know I've been somewhere in the making of it but not during the making of it. Only after the fact. If I'm not astonished, then I've failed in the making of it.

~Gerard Malanga

Topics: After Astonished Been Done Fact Failed Know Making Only Somewhere Then

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Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

~Germaine Greer

Topics: Apology Because Behavior Blame Born Earn Failed Fancy Husbands Live Lives Other People Raised Respect Take Tell Them Themselves Treated Unattractive Without Women

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