But sometimes people have the knowledge and the self-command to choose happiness, and they still fail to do so.
It may be because the recording industry in the era immediately following Woodstock was so powerful that even today some fans in their 50s and 60s still fail to realize their opinions were shaped by marketing prowess.
The red tape involved in starting a new company, the cost of hiring and firing in a protected labour market, and the stigma that is still attached to those who go into business and fail, complete the picture.
K. decided it was time, he kept things simple and divided his businesses so that his children can separately get on with their lives and still remain family, with each to succeed or fail on their own, with no claims and no impasse.
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And if they fail, Israel will still probably be better off than it is today.
Citi's earnings still fail to excite the markets, and its recent dividend to shareholders has been just one cent.
Still, some would inevitably fail their users and the Tories are vaguer about what would happen next.
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Many officials still privately believe Greece will fail to honour its commitments and that the country will need either a third bailout or will be allowed to default.
The Dutch will qualify for the knockout stages before their final group game if Cameroon fail to beat Denmark later on Saturday, and are still likely to go through regardless.
That said, I will still try and be simple to sum it up, which I will likely fail at, is once again to say how powerful (and very little understood) the mind is.
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The LDP still insists that the LTCB is too big, and too exposed internationally, to fail.
Bear Stearns was not a bank, could not borrow from the Fed's discount window and wasn't even all that big, yet the government still wouldn't let it fail.
While Samsung pushes ahead on attracting apps to its Smart TVs using its own platform and LG, Sony and Vizio align with Google TV, there are still reasons to believe that the smart TV will fail to have tremendous impact as Switched On discussed last year.
But they fail fully to explain how, despite this and other countervailing factors, environmental action has still often proved possible.
Yet still, and sadly for the Israeli Left and for the Obama administration, his charm offensive will fail to get the girl.
"There has been some very good progress to date but much of the legacy still hangs in the balance and urgent and sustained action is necessary to ensure that London does not fail, " she told peers.
And since I have not yet sold the handful of shares of Facebook I own, I guess I remain confident that they can still become a money-making SOCIAL network, and not turn into a doomed-to-fail Google-ish network that used to be social.
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Participants in these plans still lack both sufficient knowledge as to the reasons these plans have largely failed (and indeed were doomed to fail), as well as an effective means of communicating their dissatisfaction.
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