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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is on

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of Gods children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. – H. L. Mencken

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I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head. – Malcolm Mclaren

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We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people. – Mira Sorvino

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It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards. – Chris Van Hollen

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy. – Tony Benn

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