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• Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with failure. Even in the case of ladders, when simple hand-over-hand coordination is required, only one in four zombies will succeed.

  Max Brooks

  Simple, Hands, Zombie

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.14, Broadway Books

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• Your trying to take them away from me, and I can't let you do that.I'm not ready to let go." "Exactly what am I taking away?" "My family." "Brenna..." She wouldn't let him continue. "You are trying to take them away, aren't you? And if you succeed, what will I have left?" "Me.

  Julie Garwood

  Letting Go, Trying, My Family

  Julie Garwood (1997). “The Wedding”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease.

  Oliver Sacks

  Unique, Will To Survive, Miracle

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Two, Purpose

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• It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.

  Alice Sebold

  Years, Nine, Realizing

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• Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born, hasn't every word I've said, every thought I've thought, everything I've done, been tied up, weighted, chained? And mind you, I know that with all this I don't succeed. Or I succeed in flashes only too damned well. ...But think how hard I try and how seldom I dare. Think - and have a bit of pity. That is, if you ever think, you apes, which I doubt.

  Jean Rhys

  Thinking, Mind, Doubt

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• Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give, and it helps you live But no man can help you die

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Men, Giving, World

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.504, Delphi Classics

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• The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

  Jodi Picoult

  Desperate, Nothing To Lose, Loses

  Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Government, President

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

  Michael Lewis

  Fashion, Lessons, Unusual

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.52, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love, and that in doing so we may reduce the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Pain, Understanding

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Trying, Failing

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• It is better to travel with hope in one's heart than to arrive in safety. . . . We should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over. The day the experiment succeeds is the day the experiment ends. And I inevitably find that the sadness of ending outweighs the celebration of success.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Heart, Sadness, Discovery

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• I enjoy looking at your face... Whenever I look at your face, a question always comes to my mind... Will man ever succeed in reaching the moon?

  Charles M. Schulz

  Moon, Men, Mind

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• It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.

  David Levithan

  Answers, Ends, Shows

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.112, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I wasn't born with any innate talent. I've never been naturally gifted at anything. I always had to work at it. The only way I knew how to succeed was to try harder than anyone else. Dogged persistence is what got me through life. But here was something I was half-decent at. Being able to run great distances was the one thing I could offer the world. Others might be faster, but I could go longer. My strongest quality is that I never give up.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Giving Up, Distance

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.135, Atlantic Books

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• Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspiration, Pride, Creating

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• Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Loyalty, Two, People

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• Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Success, Money, Attitude

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.87, Wildside Press LLC

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• When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Stress, Giving, Wonder

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• If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Sorry, Males, Bills

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• School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual identity, understading the factors of logic, reasoning, and debate. For a person - vampire or human - to succeed in the world, unlocking the mysteries of the universe was insufficient. One would also need to grasp the mysteries of human nature.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Real, School, Personality

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “The Van Alen Legacy: Number 4 in series”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity.

  Carl Jung

  Moving, Our World, Awakening

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• Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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