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My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me. Hans Rosling

Best Me School Patient Best Friend Tried Magician He Failed Got Were Friend Taught Then Shown Medical Medical School

From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies. Henry Paulson

It is not someone's fault if they succeeded, it is someone's fault if they failed. Herman Cain

Fault Someone Failed Succeeded

Of course you know this difference as well as I do, only you failed to draw from it the conclusions for the tactics in Western Europe, at least as far as I am able to judge from your works. Herman Gorter

Almost no one wants to admit the genius of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Apparently, many have failed to see that Amazon has become the world's biggest retail company. Hubert Burda

Genius World Become See Admit Retail No-One Almost Failed Amazon Wants Biggest Apparently Jeff Many Company

I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know. Irving Penn

Work You Few Control Too Tried Variables Outside Studio Failed Know Narrow Times Depart Quite Really Many

It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth. J. D. Vance

Government Everything Churches Neighborhoods Ourselves Failed Individuals Between Sort Families Just In-Between Forth Us Communities

I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me. J. D. Vance

In George W. Bush's case, the public paid far too little attention to the role of religion in his thinking. Many voters failed to appreciate that while Bush's religious beliefs may be moderate Methodist ones, he was someone who relied on his faith immoderately, as an alternative to rational understanding of complex issues. Jacob Weisberg

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By facilitating a peace agreement and leading the reinvestment and reconstruction in Yemen, Saudi Arabia can turn around a failed state and bolster its standing as a global and regional leader. Jamal Khashoggi

Peace Leader State Arabia Reconstruction Failed Leading Global Around Yemen Regional Turn Standing Agreement Bolster Saudi Saudi Arabia

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. James Buchan

As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour. James E. Faust

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed. Janet Evanovich

You Book Recognize Writers Failed Agenda Then

What has too often happened in the past is that people have threatened punishment but have failed to carry it out. It's imperative in any initiative that is undertaken that punishment be real and that there be truth in sentencing, and that the truly dangerous offenders - the recidivists and the career criminals - be put away and kept away. Janet Reno

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People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount. Jayson Blair

News You People Corrections Out High Plus Guy Could Had He Failed Look Well Said Got How Caught Were Years Lot Stories After News Media Many Media Amount Four

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril. Jeane Kirkpatrick

World Dangerous Think Detente More Pursuit Had Failed Peril Rendering Greater Encouraging Western Western World Expansion Soviet

I hate it when Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi get to beat their drums and talk about what a great day it is for America that President Trump failed - when even they know ObamaCare is a total disaster. Jeanine Pirro

The Washington-knows-best approach has repeatedly failed the very children it proposes to help. It's time to roll back Common Core and return education to the people who it matters most to - children, parents, and teachers. Jeff Duncan

Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Jeff Greenfield

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I'm no apologist for Russia or the Assad regime, but actually, this has been staring us in the face for a number of years now, and I think it's time to turn a page and accept reality. Our strategy - if that is the right word - failed miserably, and Russia's with Iran has been successful. Jeremy Hunt

Time Reality Word Face Strategy Think Our Right Word Has-Been Russia Failed Accept Been Years Iran Regime Turn Us Successful Page Now Staring Actually Right Number

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