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Quote by Toby Young
Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficul

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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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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Failure
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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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Failure
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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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Every relationship that we have in our lives – our contact with each person, place, and event – serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way. – Guy Finley

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Cold in the earth – and the deep snow piled above thee,
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Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future. – Fulton Oursler

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