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The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away. Alexei Sayle

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We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.' Alvin Toffler

Every Statement Follow Magic About Failed Forecast Button

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage. Amy Grant

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. Andre Maurois

Events Men Own Minds Would More Could Open Failed Obtain Frequently Discover Did Regard Really Lives Things Desire

If the government has any courage, it will punish those at the top of failed banks. Accountability is critical in every area of human endeavour - there has to be a penalty for failure; otherwise, it's only a matter of time before the economic pain our banks have caused to so many innocent businesses and homeowners is forgotten. Andrea Leadsom

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Much of Mr. Bush's 28 percent approval rating is born not of 'failed policies' - of which there are many - but of the ill-gotten gains pilfered from a pre-Bush inauguration strategy to send the message to Republicans that the Democrats play politics harder and better. Andrew Breitbart

For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it clear from the day he was inaugurated in 2009 that their plan was to oppose everything he wanted and then paint him as a failed president. Andrew Rosenthal

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Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably. Andrew Ross Sorkin

All I have are my instincts. They've never failed me. Angela Ahrendts

Me Never Failed Instincts

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Courage Tried Takes Failed Does Succeeded Much

The shooter's choice of Emanuel AME was most likely deliberate, given the church's storied history. It was the first African Methodist Episcopal church in the South, founded in 1818 by a group of men including Morris Brown, a prominent pastor, and Denmark Vesey, who would go on to lead a large, yet failed, slave revolt in Charleston. Anthea Butler

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Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa. Anthony Fauci

Challenges Political Resources Several Previous Instability Delivering Failed Countries Eradicate Malaria Efforts Africa Certain Reasons Including Technical

Once I failed in cricket, I joined a law course, but when it also did not work out, it was another setback. When you get back-to-back failures, you automatically start to work harder in life. Aparshakti Khurana

Policy and business elites did not speak frankly about the unequal distribution of benefits from trade and failed to adequately accompany market-opening with good domestic policies to equip displaced workers to upskill, adjust, and share in the new opportunities being created. Arancha Gonzalez

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. Arnold Bennett

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My nature is such that even if I failed 9,999 times, I'll attempt for the 10,000th time again. Arunachalam Muruganantham

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Much of the media failed to anticipate the potential Trump represented as a disruptive populist force, understand why his supporters trusted him, or offer honest reporting on the underlying trends that made his rise possible. Ben Domenech

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I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants. Benjamin Banneker

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I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money. Beth Henley

Theatre Money Tried Failed La Meant Start Raise

Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money. Bill Maris

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My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever. Bill Walton

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