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Tag Name "Fails" (473)

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Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will rarely be at a loss for other pretexts.
James Madison
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Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives. Trust him. He never fails.
John Hagee
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A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.
James Q. Wilson
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If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness but distrust, if it do not produce treachery never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.
Jane Porter
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I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care.
John McCain
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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
Jean Cocteau
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There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.
John Rawls
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He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.
Jonathan Swift
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If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
Jefferson Davis
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The art of writing is mysterious the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of Poe, who reasoned, or feigned to reason, that the writing of a poem is an act of the intelligence. It never fails to amaze me that the classics hold a romantic theory of poetry, and a romantic poet a classical theory.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.
Jerrold Nadler
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Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed then one needs defenses.
Jerry Pournelle
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Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
Holbrook Jackson
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No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.
Jim Bunning
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Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
Horace
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When all else fails, look cute.
Jim Davis
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There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.
Immanuel Kant
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Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.
Joanna Russ
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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.
Ivan Turgenev
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There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When all else fails, philosophize.
J. M. Coetzee
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But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.
John Bruton
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