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There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

~Charles E. Wilson

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

~Charles J. Givens

Topics: Action Failures Inaction Losses Past Reason Use

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

~Charles Kettering

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Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.

~Charles M. Schwab

Topics: After Am Business Drawings Engineer Fact Failures Fashion Here In Fact Make Man Mechanical Piano Play Poor Second-Rate Tell Those Who Why You I Am I Can

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Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

~Charles Spurgeon

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We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Architects Beauty Create Failures Government Immediate Important Matter Most Our Own Responsible Those Ugliness Who

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We certainly had our share of failures early on and worked on a bunch of canceled sitcoms, which were very helpful in learning.

~Christopher Miller

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There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst thing you can do. You kind of have to face it head on.

~Christopher Poole

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In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.

~Colin Powell

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I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

~Colum Mccann

Topics: Able Been Being Biggest Down Empathy Failure Failures Few Look Other Over Past Past Few Years Person Political Social Street Think Years I Think

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