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Scott A. Sandage
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Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
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2005
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13 editions
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Democracy in America: Abridged Edition
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“The age of the self-made man was also the age of the broken man... This ‘American sense’ looked upon failure as a ‘moral sieve’ that trapped the loafer and passed the true man through. Such ideologies fixed blame squarely on individual faults, not extenuating circumstances.”
― Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
― Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
“I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.”
― Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
― Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
“Debtors and idlers abounded in the colonial era, but failing in business was not so calamitous as falling from grace... In Early America, fear of failure loomed largest on Sunday. Monday morning dawned about the year 1800. By then, ‘failure’ meant an entrepreneurial failure.”
― Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
― Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
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