#fails

Nothing fails like failure. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

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Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

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So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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More can be learned from what works than from what fails. ↗

— Rene Dubos

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It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone. ↗

— Edmond H. Fischer

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There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation. ↗

— Jan Garbarek

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If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A. ↗

— Mark Lawrenson

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When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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