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For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane. ↗

— Charles F. Bass

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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#art #attempt #failures #just #numerous

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#better #different #failures #new #our

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

— Charles Kettering

#failures #his #inventor #once #practice

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world. ↗

— Carl Levin

#credibility #damaged #failures #intelligence #iraq

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures. ↗

— Don Johnson

#commercial #even #failures #films #find

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. ↗

— Richard Russo

#comprehending #deepest #failures #fiction #fiction writer

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place. ↗

— May Sarton

#place #their #total #unimportant #work

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#assume #attacked #because #community #counterterrorism

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

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