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We read Thomas Piketty because we needed to understand these failures to have any hope of grappling with them.

Hildebrand was keenly aware of the grievous failures of Christians under Nazism.

That can be survivable if a president acknowledges failures and takes steps to correct.

Almost all Arab men are like that, except for the “failures,” as my brother would say.

He thinks that boys who don't do this are not men, just failures.

But poverty accompanied by crop failures for three years was a general and accepted thing now.

He doubled and trebled his risks, and did the like, as may be guessed, to his anxieties and failures.

He made a deliberate effort to put himself in Zeal's place, and after several failures accomplished the feat.

Marshal Marmont has been called one of Napoleon's failures, but this criticism is one-sided and unjust.

Their profits and losses vary greatly from year to year; and failures have been frequent.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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