We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans,

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obamas extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama. – David Limbaugh

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Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of governments failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place. – Russell Pearce

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But all actors go through the process, its hit and miss, you have achievement and failure. – Thomas Haden Church

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. – Edward Eggleston

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