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"If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important." - Arther Bloch

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows." - Farrar

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." - W. C. Fields, quoted in John Robert Colombo's Popcorn in Paradise

"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost." - Ferdinand Foch

"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped." - African Proverb

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." - Earl Wilson

"Not failure, but low aim, is crime." - JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, For an Autograph

"If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything." - Collins, Marva

"I don't know the the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everbody." - Cosby, Bill

"In school the external nightmare is internalized for life. Boris was not learning arithmetic only; he was learning the essential nightmare also. To be successful in our culture one must learn to dream of failure." - Henry, J. in 'Culture Against Men'

"In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)

"It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)

"There is always another chance... This thing called 'failure' is not falling down, but staying down." - Pickford, Mary

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Roosevelt, Theodore

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