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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Destiny: A tyrants authority for crime and a fools excuse for fail

Destiny: A tyrants authority for crime and a fools excuse for failure. – Ambrose Bierce

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. – Ambrose Bierce

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Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket. – Ambrose Bierce

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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. – J. K. Rowling

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We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game. – Alan Shearer

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One failure is worth seven and a half successes. – Eli Khamarov

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Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death. – Rupert Holmes

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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a days time they will have turned it into a Hell. – Jeremy Bentham

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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation. – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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