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He just wouldn't study. Then he'd get these failing grades, and that would further hurt his self-esteem. Terri Johnson
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The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing. Richard Ford
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In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You. Saint Augustine
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The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public. Twyla Tharp
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I'm disappointed because we put ourselves under a lot of pressure giving away too many penalties in the first half and failing to take our opportunities in the second.
failing intellect conscience
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. James Russell Lowell
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My biggest adjustment has been learning not to be afraid to fail. Johnny Damon
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What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail. John Cleese
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Those who object to wit are envious of it. William Hazlitt
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Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes,Desirous still, still impotent to rise. William Shenstone
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You can't be envious and happy at the same time
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The purpose of the 'Way Forward Group' is simply to do, in a formal way, what the royal family in Britain has always done.
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I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror. Mark Haddon
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Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world. David Miliband
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We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television. Richard O'Brien
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This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America. Walter Russell Mead
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In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place. Stephen Kinzer
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In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline. Nick Harkaway
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It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis. Michael Apted
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Is this how we now must live? ... Britain will not be beaten.