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Tag Name "Succeeds" (211)

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The song succeeds or fails just based on whether you argue your point successfully. I like throwing images together, which create meaning if you listen to it one time, but if you listen to it another time you might get a different meaning.
Iron & Wine
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Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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No one fails alone and no one succeeds alone.
Eric Thomas
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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.
J. K. Bharavi
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Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.
Ernest Sosa
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I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.
Bill Watterson
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Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.
James Dobson
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The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.
Evan Esar
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I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.
Bruce Jenner
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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
Jean Cocteau
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We don't live forever. We have a limited energy. You have to determine those things that you direct your energy towards, otherwise you get yourself in too many places and nothing succeeds.
Frederick Lenz
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The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around. Cynicism is paralyzing, while the naïve person tries what the cynic says is impossible and sometimes succeeds.
Charles Eisenstein
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Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.
Abraham Lincoln
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What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom.
Gautama Buddha
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I'm honestly not jealous of my wife at all - when she succeeds I'm psyched. It never occurred to me to feel threatened by her success. But the one thing I am jealous of is the number of awesome, interesting, artistic, productive, and cool people she gets to hang out with all day.
Christopher Noxon
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what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto. (p123) Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton
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'Heroism' is not the same as coping. A man who does his job properly and succeeds through his own efforts is definitely to be commended, but he is not a hero in the classic sense until he deliberately lays his life on the line for a cause he deems to be greater than himself.
Jeff Cooper
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When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.
George Washington
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Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
Coco Chanel
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The better a novel is, in literary terms, the more you can't be faithful. The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies.
Alexander Payne
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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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