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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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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. – Elliot Richardson

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After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks. – Kurt Student

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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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