Failure is not an option. (Applause.) This is not a time for cynics.

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As our family recently learned, failure is not an option when our need for a map app becomes deadly serious.

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To reinvent education or solve any of the problems facing our society today, we need to think innovatively, see the promise of education outside the box and recognize that failure is not an option.

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"Failure is not an option" became her motto.

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"Failure is not an option, " Orr said.

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They say failure is not an option.

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There's a high level of cynicism in Africa towards rich Westerners who arrive promising to bring good things to the world's most impoverished continent, but Brandling-Bennett says the Gates Foundation is taking the attitude that failure is not an option.

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Failure is not an option.

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And yet, no matter how hard it may be to start meaningful negotiations under current circumstances, we must acknowledge that a failure to try is not an option.

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