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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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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him. – George Bernard Shaw

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I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as Im trying my best. So Ive had a blood, guts and glory approach through my whole life. – Ali Larter

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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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