For all the costs of a rescue, the cost of failure to the economy would sometimes be higher.

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Sometimes the difference between success and failure is the willingness to come back tomorrow, despite the setbacks of today.

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But sometimes, people have to experience the result of failure to come to their senses.

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In fact, he goes as far to suggest that conferences like Pioneers should actually have an award for failure to create a new cultural environment illustrates in Europe that failure is okay and sometimes paves the way for success.

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Not only did that prevent the repeat of a failure, but it sometimes led to valuable insights on, say, how to make a manufacturing process more efficient.

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In the past, heart failure drugs that have helped patients feel better have sometimes not helped them--and have even hurt them--in the long run.

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Big names in the pop world have sometimes stumbled on Broadway, including Paul Simon, whose 1998 show "The Capeman" was the most high-profile failure of his career.

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