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One thing I do believe is I'm a believer in the presence of God. I believe that God is close. Whether it's in joy, pain or personal failure, I believe that God is close. That much I feel in my life.

~David Gregory

Topics: Believe Believer Close Failure Feel God Joy Life Much My Life One Thing Pain Personal Presence Thing Whether I Feel I Believe I Believe That

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Failure usually works for me in the end.

~David Hasselhoff

Topics: End Failure In The End Me Works

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We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.

~David Henry Hwang

Topics: Career Deal Experience Failure Long Long Career Lucky Part You

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All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.

~David Hepworth

Topics: About Bang Came Cameron Careers Coffin Continent David Did End Ended Europe Failure Few Having He His Name Political Power Promising Quickly Up

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The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: African African Americans American Blow Commitment Degree Each Expectation Failure Fatalism Finally Going More Much Point Repeated Scenario Seems Skepticism Some Story Success Until Where Work

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Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

~David Limbaugh

Topics: Better Campaign Demonstrate Extreme Failure He His John John Mccain Liberalism Lost Make Mccain Obama President Reasons Refusal Showcase Some Than Thus Were Why Would

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The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in 1917 for the purpose of facilitating more national debt, not reducing it. It still serves that purpose. It's unconnected to spending, hurts our credit rating and has been an abject failure at limiting debt.

~David Malpass

Topics: Abject Been Books Credit Debt Failure Hurts Law Limit Limiting Misleading More Name National National Debt Our Purpose Rating Reducing Serve Spending Started Still

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War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

~David Mamet

Topics: Arms Bell Diplomacy Failure Farewell Great Greatest Peace Some Stories Those Tragedies Tragedy War Whom

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There is no question that the Islamic State will be defeated in Mosul; the real question is what comes afterward. Can the post-Islamic State effort resolve the squabbling likely to arise over numerous issues and bring lasting stability to one of Iraq's most diverse and challenging provinces? Failure to do so could lead to ISIS 3.0.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Afterwards Arise Bring Challenging Could Defeated Diverse Effort Failure Iraq Islamic Issues Lasting Lead Likely Most No Question Numerous Over Provinces Question Real Resolve Stability State Will

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Iraq's Sunnis need to be brought back into the fold. They need to feel as though they have a stake in the success of Iraq rather than a stake in its failure.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Back Brought Failure Feel Fold Iraq Need Rather Stake Success Than Though

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