My computer won't start up from sleep mode - the spinning pin wheel never goes away

When I try to awake my computer from sleep mode, I get the never ending spinning pinwheel. I have to power down and re-start. Any ideas why this is happening?
thanks

Go step by step and test.
Restart.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2570
Startup in Safe mode
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14204?viewlocale=en_US
Repair Disk
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836
Reset PRAM: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph14222
Reinstall OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13871

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