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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

~Edsger Dijkstra

Topics: Between Decide Elegance Factor Failure Luxury Success

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Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

~Edward Abbey

Topics: Belief Failure Imagination Reflects Supernatural

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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

~Edward Bach

Topics: Attacked Being Burying Causes Dealing Failure Given Hold Main Main Reason Medical Modern More Nothing Real Reason Results Science Slain Strong Than Those Thought Up Who Without

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Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

~Edward Brooke

Topics: Failure Guarantees Hatred Intolerance Serve

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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

~Edward Dowden

Topics: Distinguished Failure Faithfully Noble Serve Sometimes Success World

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We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

~Edward Mckendree Bounds

Topics: Because Doing Failure Failures Feeble God Heaven Impoverished Lack Our Petition Pray Prayer Reason Restrained Weak

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So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.'

~Edward Whitacre, Jr.

Topics: Aware Code Company Competitors Employees Failure Government Image Label Long Money Motors Never One Thing Shake Thing Up Will Wrapped Gm

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People say they want to be in risky environments and do all kinds of exciting stuff. But they don't actually know what risk means: that risk actually does bring failure and mistakes.

~Edwin Catmull

Topics: Actually Bring Does Environments Exciting Failure Kinds Know Means Mistakes People People Say Risk Risky Say Stuff Want

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Spain held the doctrine (and was right in holding it) that every human enterprise should stand on two pillars - the temporal and the spiritual. To depend upon one of these pillars alone is to call down final failure upon any undertaking.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Alone Any Call Depend Doctrine Down Enterprise Every Failure Final Held Holding Human Pillars Right Should Spain Spiritual Stand Temporal Two Undertaking

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We would be billionaires, but we took responsibility for Summa's failure.

~Edwin Soeryadjaya

Topics: Billionaires Failure Responsibility Took Would

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