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Ive become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I

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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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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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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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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Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obamas extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama. – David Limbaugh

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The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders attitudes toward risk – and failure. – Dee Dee Myers

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The only failure is not to try. – George Clooney

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It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone. – Edmond H. Fischer

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Go forth under the open sky, and list To Natures teachings. – William C. Bryant

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The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden theyve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, youre just horny. It doesnt mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten. – George William Curtis

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