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War remains the decisive human failure. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. -- William James
I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity. -- Joy Harjo
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. -- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure. -- Adolf Hitler
When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section. -- Linda Ellerbee
The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure. -- Ben Okri
It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess. -- Max Weber
Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts. And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.... -- Frank Borman
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being. -- Jerry Falwell
I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures. -- Mindy Kaling
The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures. -- Gary Wolf
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. -- Phyllis Schlafly
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. -- Norman Cousins
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human. -- John Ortberg
Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures. -- Lawrence G. Lovasik
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is. -- Natalie Goldberg
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature. -- Morris West
Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure. -- Greg Bear
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement. -- Anna Garlin Spencer
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness? -- Daisaku Ikeda
Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved. -- Ernest Hemingway
Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness. -- Simone Weil
To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. -- Spider Robinson
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure. -- Norman Cousins
It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success. -- Gene Stratton-Porter
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature -- Phyllis Schlafly
War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships. -- Harry Elmer Barnes
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings. -- Margaret Atwood
All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint. -- Simon Newcomb
Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities. -- Muhammad Yunus
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. -- Bonar Law
A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor. -- Terry Orlick
Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life. -- Yitzhak Rabin
Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being. -- Anthony Biglan
... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph. -- Harold Russell
In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care. -- Bernard Lown
War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit. -- Robert Fisk
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO? -- R. Buckminster Fuller
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs. -- Enoch Powell
Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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