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Quote by Paddy Ashdown
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society. – Paddy Ashdown

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Bosnia is under my skin. Its the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years. – Paddy Ashdown

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No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but mans front embraces the whole universe. – Henry Miller

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The success and the failure are not my concern, but His. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Well, I think its too early to call Fallujah a failure. – Charles Schumer

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