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• After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.

  Alan Gottlieb

  Gun, Dust, Law

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• A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come.

  Ron Paul

  Revolution, States

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• There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it.

  Henry Sy

  Good Luck, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.

  Brady Corbet

  Gun, Tests, Auditions

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• I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

  Paddy Considine

  Art, People, Soul

  "Paddy Considine: 'Making this film felt like an exorcism'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.

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• We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Our World, Poverty

  "Let’s Make Mother’s Day a Global Reality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2009.

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• Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a person's whole experience and life. And that always there's the chance that this will fail. That things will not work out.

  Chris Kraus

  Art, Writing, Work Out

  Chris Kraus (2000). “Aliens & anorexia”, Semiotext

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• The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.

  Giuseppe Zanotti

  Cutting, Past, Thinking

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• If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.

  Yossi Vardi

  Bankers, Should, Afraid To Fail

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• If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.

  Andrew Forrest

  Giving Up, Knows, Ifs

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• Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Forgiving, Debt, Neighbor

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.121

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• People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  People, Expectations, Drug

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1922). “My Life and Some Letters”

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• He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

  Horace

  Men, Speak, Absent Friends

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• Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Development, Want

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.17

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• Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Law, Church

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724”, p.332

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• Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

  Jonathan Swift

  Character, Support, Done

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• The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.

  Edith Sitwell

  Ideas, Hands, Feelings

  Edith Sitwell (Dame) (1930). “Ser. Milton and the Augustan Age”

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• Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Thinking, Hair

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

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• Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

  Frances Wright

  Clever, Men, Good Man

  Frances Wright (1831). “A Few Days in Athens: Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum”, p.31

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• Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Experience

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Logic, Impulse, All The Best

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Early Spring in Massachusetts: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”, p.51, Library of Alexandria

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• A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Men, Ideas, Succeed

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• The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Zealous, Conversion

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Character, Passion, Citizens

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, J.R. Pole (2005). “The Federalist”, p.301, Hackett Publishing

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• What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients.

  William Hazlitt

  Nice, Choices, Principles

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.468

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