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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.
No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.
I grew up listening to this adage that hard work never fails. It is very true of 'Adhoori.'
No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately.
In many, many instances, traditional Christianity fails to meet the real needs of the people.
If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.
If all else fails and you don't know what to wear, put on a black dress, and you'll be happy.
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that's about it, because everything they do fails.
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
I hate a sleepy, nonresponsive, and silent audience because it fails to excite me as a performer.
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed.
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
Fear is a treacherous leader. It shrinks from the new and fails to meet the challenges of the future.
In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.
Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.
I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.
Ultimately, if BEIS fails in the historic tasks Theresa May has given it, we will all pay a heavy price.
There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools.
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.
The public should want to see a movie and it should entertain them. If it fails to do so, it is not good cinema.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
In standup, the feedback is instantaneous, and if it fails, you know you'll be off-stage and hiding in a short time.
Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement.
Every time I dive, I feel an adrenaline rush like I did that first time. Until my body fails on me, I will keep going.
'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.