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When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result. There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems. -- Maggie Gallagher
When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure. -- Chad Hurley
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing. -- Roddy Doyle
Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success. -- Malcolm Mclaren
I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world. -- Willard Wigan
I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me. -- Pierce Brown
The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. -- Jon Meacham
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down. -- Jerry Rice
Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further. -- Zach Wamp
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. -- Henry A. Wallace
Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so. -- Estelle Morris
If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation. -- Ruben Hinojosa
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. -- Jonathan Kozol
By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure. -- Ravi Zacharias
Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks. -- Les Brown
In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure. -- Mike Krzyzewski
One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Southern California high school - car lines snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government's price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing. -- Nina Easton
In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront. -- Lupe Fiasco
The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined. -- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head. -- Malcolm Mclaren
Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly. -- William T. Vollmann
Failure in school does not mean failure in Iife. -- Stephen J. Cannell
Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school. -- David Henry Hwang
None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success. -- Marva Collins
If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure. -- Lisa Delpit

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