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failure
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. Max Beerbohm
failure failures god heaven lack reason restrained weak
We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition. Edward McKendree Bounds
failures intelligence intelligence-and-intellectuals late learn since
It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected. Edward Markey
failure men political
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind. Richard Hofstadter
failure effort
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. Richard Whately
failure food weight-loss
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. Totie Fields
failure past design
Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past. Samuel Johnson
failure adversity men
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime. Samuel Butler
failure fall degrees
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. Robert Louis Stevenson
islamic obviously regimes sold
You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus. Mohamed ElBaradei
islam rest versus
It is Islam versus the rest of the world, David Perry
islamic years idols
It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols-bigotry and fanaticism-worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it. Reza Aslan
islamic thinking iraq
And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular. William Kristol
islam mein-kampf nazism
Of course you can have an opinion about Islam without having read Qur'an. You don't have to read Mein Kampf to have an opinion about Nazism. Richard Dawkins
islam world growing
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world. Salman Rushdie
islam culture weapons
I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the progressive, irreverent, skeptical, argumentative, playful and unafraid culture which is what I've always understood as freedom.... Actually Existing Islam ... which makes literalism a weapon and redescription a crime, will never let the likes of me in.
islam looks followers
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. Zbigniew Brzezinski
islam certain used
Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology. Youssou N'Dour
wells halfway
Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours. Robert Jordan
wells knows greater
You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well. Khalil Gibran
wells thirds
You have to do well on third downs. Joe Buck
wells happens asks
They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here? Jodi Picoult
wells unwavering
because it was then, as he held her in his unwavering gaze, that she knew she was in love with him as well. Nicholas Sparks
wellspring wells written
Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience. Sharon Olds
wells chests
Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest? Rachel Cohn
wells can-do
Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it. Kevin Kelly
wells died
Well, he died. You don't get any older than that. Joseph Heller