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If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

~Betty White

Topics: Broadway Broadway Show Does Failure Get Great How Just Knows Long May Me Show Sound Stuck Who Work You

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Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands, and if all fails, daring is trying again.

~Bibi Bourelly

Topics: Again Asking Believing Chances Daring Despite Doing Else Fails Failure Going Limb Out Outrageous Rejection Something Trying Understands Your

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Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Able Believe Children Competition Failure Fear Handle Helps Others Parents Prepare Some Succeed Will

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Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Bridge Bridges Cause Collapse Design Entire Failure Fallen Federal Forbid Inspection Kind Lack Like Part Regulations Single

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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

~Bill Gates

Topics: Celebrate Failure Fine Heed Important Lessons More Success

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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

~Bill Moyers

Topics: Except Failure Imagination Moral Self-Defense War

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Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.

~Bill O'Reilly

Topics: Alienation America Among Away Bad Behavior Causes Chaos Children Educational Failure Far Far Away Harming Home Itself Many Nation National Parenting Scandal Social Stay Topic Understand Us Violent Well

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Success is never final, but failure can be.

~Bill Parcells

Topics: Failure Final Never Success Success Is

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I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

~Billy Childish

Topics: Art Because Books Doing Drawing Failure Going Liked Listen Living Looking Make Me Only Painters Painting Stop Wanted Who Work Would You

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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

~Billy Childish

Topics: Any Any Other Way Because Express Failure Fantastic Get How Know Limitations Meet Myself Other Way You Your Yourself

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