“Failure is an event not a person”

See You at the Top (2000)
Variant: Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

"The Laffer Curve", Knotted Doughnuts and other Mathematical Entertainments (1986)
Context: Ideologues of all persuasions think they know how the economy will respond to the Administration's strange mixture of Lafferism and monetarism. Indeed, their self-confidence is so vast, and their ability to rationalize so crafty, that one cannot imagine a scenario for the next few years, that they would regard as falsifying their dogma. The failure of any prediction can always be blamed on quirky political decisions or unforeseen historical events.

Human experience shows that once death occurs certain biological signs inevitably follow, which medicine has learnt to recognize with increasing precision. In this sense, the "criteria" for ascertaining death used by medicine today should not be understood as the technical-scientific determination of the exact moment of a person's death, but as a scientifically secure means of identifying the biological signs that a person has indeed died.
Address to the 18th International Congress of the Transplantation Society, 29 August 2000

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971), p. 81

Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (1974), p. 355: session 654: April 9, 1973

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 373
General

J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 108
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)