Failure

Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.

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Famous quotes containing the word failure:

    Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again next time.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
    John Hersey (1914–1993)

    Evil is simply
    a grammatical error:
    a failure to leap
    the precipice
    between “he”
    and “I.”
    Linda Pastan (b. 1932)