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“Success is always less funny than failure.”

Jon Ronson · Failure

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Jon Ronson

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.

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We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.

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Gertrude Stein

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

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Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

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