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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. -- Charles J. Givens
The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures. -- Gary Wolf
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. -- Alan Price
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I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth. -- Alana Stewart
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them. -- Orison Swett Marden
With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire. -- Justin Sane
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason. -- Saint Basil
I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more. -- Helen Garner
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
Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden. -- Dan Buettner
What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting. -- Bernie Siegel
Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth. -- Matt Emmons
The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored. -- Dick Cavett
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. -- Johnny Cash
People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government. -- Scott Brown
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to. -- Larry Elder
I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now. -- Mike Krzyzewski
Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or even of reliable, soulless efficiency? I suspect future historians will puzzle over our failure. But by then, of course, we shall be in the age of mass space travel, with its fresh and unimaginable crop of horrors. -- Paul Johnson
Failure is a detour on the way to using Cosmic Ordering. -- Stephen Richards
Often the only difference between success and failure is not using Cosmic Ordering. -- Stephen Richards
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed. -- Paul Feyerabend

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