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Expanding a failing, big-government program that reduces flexibility for the states and traps generations of Americans in dependency is not consistent with the kind of conservative solutions that Reagan sought during his terms as governor of California and president of the United States.

~Edwin Meese

Topics: American California Conservative Consistent Dependency Expanding Failing Flexibility Generations Governor His Kind President Program Reagan Solutions Sought States Terms Traps United United States

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There is something about a theatre room that is really like a laboratory for trying things and failing, because you have time to do that, and you can explore something deeply and discard it if it's not working.

~Elizabeth Debicki

Topics: About Because Deeply Discard Explore Failing Laboratory Like Really Room Something Theatre Things Time Trying Working You

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Twenty is a hard time. It doesn't matter what profession you're in or how much experience you have, you're always going to be haunted by this feeling of failing. It's terrifying.

~Ella Purnell

Topics: Always Experience Failing Feeling Going Hard Hard Time Haunted How How Much Matter Much Profession Terrifying Time Twenty You

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There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

~Elon Musk

Topics: Enough Failing Failure Here Nasa Notion Option Silly Things You

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When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

~Emeril Lagasse

Topics: Banks Because Concept Decided Down Failing First Give Good Had Knew Late Many Open Refused Restaurant Restaurants Several Turned Up Were

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I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.

~Emily Mortimer

Topics: Actor Been Big Career Childhood Constantly Failing Full Joke Made Myself Scared Self-Doubt Shy Since

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Jews are frequently compared to the proverbial 'canary in the coal mine,' an enduring signal for when the world is failing to meet its obligations in tackling bigotry. It has never been clearer to me just how widely understood that truism is.

~Ephraim Mirvis

Topics: Been Canary Clearer Coal Compared Enduring Failing Frequently How Jews Just Me Meet Mine Never Obligations Signal Tackling Understood Widely World

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Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

~Ernie Harwell

Topics: Against Baseball Becomes Every Failing Game Heroic Inches Man Measured Race Reflex Seen Skill Spirited Statistic Then

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Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

~Estelle Morris

Topics: Allowed Before Break Came Continuing Determined Doing Drift Failing Failure Government Many Pattern Power Schools Simply Successfully Were

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I want kids to be able to escape failing schools that trap them. And it's an unequal trapping of children. The most affluent find a way to escape. They move to a great suburban district or send their kid to a private school. The people who are trapped in the worst schools that have been terrible often for half a century? Those are the poorest kids.

~Eva Moskowitz

Topics: Able Affluent Been Century Children District Escape Failing Find Great Half Kid Kids Most Move Often People Poorest Private Private School School Schools Send Suburban Terrible Them Those Trap Trapped Unequal Want Way Who Worst

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