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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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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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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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Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of governments failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place. – Russell Pearce

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If youre 40 years old and youve never had a failure, youve been deprived. – Gloria Swanson

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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. – Andy Grove

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Failure doesnt kill you… it increases your desire to make something happen. – Kevin Costner

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In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. – Niklaus Wirth

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