We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve. – John B. S. Haldane

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There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. – Brian Ferneyhough

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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. – Max Beerbohm

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