Quote by George Eliot
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. – George Eliot

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Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in. – George Eliot

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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. – George Eliot

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There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing. – Marvin Minsky

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I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure. – Michael Malone

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The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms. – Neal Boortz

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Theres always failure. And theres always disappointment. And theres always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. – Michael J. Fox

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People think celebrities dont have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. Its like youve traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. – David Duchovny

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