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Tag Name "Fails" (473)

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There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.
Wilhelm Wundt
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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
Will Durant
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Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails.
James Cook
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If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.
Will Rogers
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Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
William Barclay
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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
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A Lifetime Warranty on a concealed carry firearm isn't much good, If the firearm fails in an armed encounter, the owner of the firearm might expire, along with the warranty.
John Abbott
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A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.
William Cowper
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The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.
William E. Simon
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The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.
William Ernest Hocking
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The proverb answers where the sermon fails.
William Gilmore Simms
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
William James
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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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A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.
William Manchester
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Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.
Jan Garbarek
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
William Penn
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The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
William Shakespeare
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The arts are essen­tial to any com­plete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus­tain and encour­age them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.
Winston Churchill
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Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
Ahmed Chalabi
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When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.
Aeschylus
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When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
Adyashanti
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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
Adrienne Rich
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