#failed

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I failed to make the chess team because of my height.


Woody Allen


#because #chess #failed #height #i

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.


Naveen Andrews


#failed #good #good parent #i #i am

The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security.


Charles Foster Bass


#after #clinton #clinton administration #committee #designs

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.


Russell Baker


#barack obama #because #change #clearly #day

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.


Ambrose Bierce


#american #american politics #condition #country #failed

My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.


Buffalo Bill


#determined #escape #failed #first #having

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.


Jack Dee


#badly #become #comedians #failed #i

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.


Sara Blakely


#age #ask #changed #dad #disappointed

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.


Sara Blakely


#attitude #basically #been #course #failed

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.


Robert Bork


#apparent #became #cannot #child #enlightenment