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Anything less than a second place finish would amount to failure for him, and might seem him quit the race.
The dome was a notable failure for him, if you can call something that never got past the preliminary design stage and was never even made public a failure.
"She knows there's no success like failure/And that failure's no success at all", he moaned at another.H.L. Mencken had a grumpy verdict on this attitude to success and failure: for him, the typical American was "vexed, at one and the same time, by delusions of grandeur and an inferiority complex".
He likely wondered whether this experience would be just another failure for him.
Being forced to go to a second round would constitute a failure for him and his personalised exercise of power.
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'Success and failure are for him answers above all.' You suspect that Beuys, even - especially in his sense of mystery and his creation of unfinished art - knew this to be true.
In what other activity could he so reliably enjoy the dashed hopes, the queasy compromises and the nagging knowledge of failure, which for him were the staples of life in this fallen world?
Hamilton emerged unscathed from his car, shortly after which the team tweeted: "A car failure for Lewis put him off at turn one.
He has stated in no uncertain terms that if healthcare reform is not achieved this year, it will be a huge failure -- both for him politically, and for the country at large.
Remember when President Obama tacitly supported Mayor Michael Bloomberg by tepidly endorsing his Democratic opponent William Thompson - a stance highlighted by the president's failure to campaign for him in New York?
For a brief moment, my frustration turned to guilt for my lack of faith, then to jealousy for her overflowing devotion to a God I sometimes long to hear, likely due to my recent failure to ask for Him to speak.
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