Quote by Toby Young
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more res

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure. – Toby Young

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Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father. – Toby Young

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relationship
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Ive become a professional failure – in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment. – Toby Young

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Failure
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In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a persons life chances, so were less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that its much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America. – Toby Young

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Failure
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The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit. – James F. Byrnes

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Ive had a lot of success Ive had failures, so I learn from the failure. – Gordon Ramsay

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Failure

Everybody keeps saying that Indias a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty. – Vijay Mallya

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Failure

Ive probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I dont want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. – Emma Watson

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Failure

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