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«In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.»
«In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.»
«Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.»
Author: Kenneth Boudling | Keywords: fails
«I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.»
Author: Michael Jordan (Basketball Player) | About: Failure | Keywords: fails
«It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails»
Author: Romain Rolland (Writer) | About: Art | Keywords: fails, sunshine
«It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.»
«Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.»
«It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.»
«In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding himself.'' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.»
«Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good»

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