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By never marrying, I ended up never divorcing, but I also failed to accumulate that brocade of civility and padlock of security - kids you do or don't want, Tiffany silver you never use - that makes life complete. Elizabeth Wurtzel

Life You Complete Kids Security Marrying Silver Civility Never Failed Also Makes Up Accumulate Ended Want Use

EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust to stand up for our rights, treat us honestly, and make us proud. Our candidates fight for us every day. Blanche Lincoln failed to hold up her end of the bargain. Ellen Malcolm

Day Rights Trust Fight Women Every Day Treat Every Honestly Our Members Emily Blanche Failed Democratic Make Proud Lincoln End Up Pro-Choice List Committed Candidates Hold Us Bargain Stand Stand Up Whom Deeply Her

The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people. Ellen Tauscher

Today People Better Opportunity Old National President Took Once Security Failed New Ideas Protect His American Intended National Security Dynamic Again Them American People Strategies Present

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb. Elon Musk

You Light Space Example Experiment Case Something Attempt Never Had Light Bulb Failed Make Greater Does Bulb Goal Often Space Shuttle Used Even Why Shuttle

Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap. Emily Martin

Gone System Carries Only Failed Idea Also Making Scrap Produce Production Use Productive Products Connotation Specification Wasted Awry

As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission. Eric Ries

Financial Entrepreneur Try Ruin Possibility Risk Only Exceeded Could Lifetime Knew True Failed Felt Insurance Always Real Limits Due Came Covered Often Either Again Plans Company Illness Serious

If a community water system is forced to conduct a chlorine burn because they are experiencing nitrification, it is because they have failed... It is a remedial action to correct a serious problem they themselves have created because they are cheating on the regulations. Erin Brockovich

Problem Water Cheating Community Action Correct System Failed Forced Because Conduct Burn Experiencing Themselves Created Regulations Serious

I've failed once or twice real big, independent. Fat Joe

Big Once Independent Failed Real Twice

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life! Francis Ford Coppola

Life Better My Life Think Way Fail Failed Overly Been Ambitious Very Than Upward Succeed Fortunate Mundane

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized. Freeman Dyson

I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs. Gary Johnson

War Time Myself Angry Decision Long Long Time Deficit Spending Indefinitely East Finding Stay Record About Failed Over Trade Been Afghanistan Middle Middle East Happening War On Drugs Cap Really

I didn't want 'Hotel Transylvania' to be the nail in the coffin for cartoony animation. Because if the movie failed, I could see people blaming that aspect of it. I was really nervous about that. Genndy Tartakovsky

People Nervous See About Blaming Could Animation Failed Nail Hotel Because Want Movie Really Aspect Coffin

I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters. Geoffrey Fisher

The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference. George Edmund Street

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates. George Jackson

Savage Black Reading Nation Fred Obituary Blacks Columns Failed Hampton Repression Estimated Which Etc Register

America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal. George Kaiser

Opportunity Failed Equal Equal Opportunity Goal Contract America Achieving Social Social Contract

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again. George Takei

Me Country Important Glorious Nation About Seems Failed Ideals Know Also Achievements Where Order Happening Again Certainly Keep

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions. Gijs de Vries

Important Trigger Objective Arguably Failed Most Terrorists Revolutions Al

I'm not really a line type of guy. I mean, pick-up lines work for some guys. You gotta really sell that thing hard. I did try one pick-up line, and it failed miserably. I thought it was really funny, but the girl didn't find it very funny. Glen Powell

Oh, I don't think religion has failed. It's man who has failed. Christ hasn't failed. The Gospel hasn't failed. The teachings of God have not failed. Gordon B. Hinckley

God Religion Man Christ Think Failed Gospel Oh Teachings Who

I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time. Graham Potter

Time Old Made Mistakes Gone Think Too Had Football Failed Idea Learn Because Real Years Stopped Coach Many Professional Initially Professional Football Playing Needed

Myself and some kids on our estate became obsessed with the creation of the ultimate go-kart. This ambition culminated in the creation of a six-man super-cart, which was essentially a plank of wood with four wheels, and a failed attempt to jump a tributary of the River Severn powered only by Rex, our dog. Greg Davies

Myself Dog Ambition Creation Our Kids Some Only Attempt River Failed Obsessed Powered Became Ultimate Jump Wheels Essentially Wood Estate Which Plank Four

The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them. Guy Finley

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