For all of our successes, there remains a lot of discontent across the political spectrum.
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Put another way, how well can it predict our successes, academically or professionally, and what variables may matter more?
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We have shared our experiences with other companies in the hope that our successes will be replicated by others.
The books, naturally, present only our successes: outings that take the walker into apparently unspoiled landscapes and endlessly fabulous local cuisine.
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The vice president, by contrast, barrels ahead with talk about our successes in Iraq, telling naysayers in Congress and elsewhere to take a hike.
This is a marvelous occasion to share our successes and learn from the experiences and challenges of other Champions in a very effective way: cooperation.
And I know that you will give him and the Party the same unfailing commitment which has made our successes possible over the last eleven years.
In Western countries and nowhere more so than in the U.S. innate ability is the go-to explanation for all of our successes and our failures.
We also met with our Hungarian allies, and acknowledged both our successes together and our concerns about some of the actions the government has taken that set back democratic progress.
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Yet, when we explain our own achievements in life, we are biased to over-value our personal characteristics as explaining our successes while also over-valuing our situation factors in explaining our failures.
My hope for the future is that these children will receive an education that has learnt from our mistakes, our arguments and our successes, and that we might indeed learn from their progress.
Having fellow business people to whom we can talk about our insecurities, herald our successes and profess our dreams can be just the shot-in-the-arm we need to wake up the next morning and start all over again.
So the question is, if we have the ability to learn so much more from our individual Black Swan moments than from our successes, that we acknowledge their value, why do we persist in our need to predict the future?
For while we can celebrate our electoral successes in the 20th century we need to remember they were few and far between.
We often find it challenging to recognize our own successes.
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Like most trends in IT, cloud computing is a combination of a number of underlying trends that have long been in the works, a kind of evolutionary blend of our previous successes and failures.
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Thankfully, President Bush's stirring throw-down-the-gauntlet speech in August at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention and his surprise visit to Iraq in September demonstrate that the Commander in Chief has no intention of undercutting our newfound successes in Iraq.
Leaving aside whether this view is correct, for which I harbor grave doubts, we will surely miss the signs of the next attack if we continue to overestimate our own successes, and dismiss what terrorists remain capable of accomplishing when they put their minds to it.
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But with all the self esteem building trinkets for our age appropriate successes, there are rarely ever consequences attached to failure.
However, can this focus on tracking happiness actually undermine us, especially in our career or business successes?
The long-form reportorial successes of our staff reporters continue to add up, largley on the strength of social sharing.
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When we celebrate the outstanding successes of our science, originally developed on the shore of the Mediterranean, we often forget that science has experienced much less glorious times.
We have had enormous successes through our cooperation with Pakistan.
Most importantly, we must do everything in our power to encourage, value and support the dedicated health workers, whose efforts are critical to realizing one of the greatest public health successes of our time.
And we understand that this is a long war, and the policy of the President devised with his advisors and commanders is aimed at achieving the success that we need and drawing down our forces once those successes have been achieved and as we transition authority to Afghan security forces.
Unpleasant as this is to admit for those of us who have supported President Bush for years, it is high time to acknowledge that his policies toward Pakistan have been an unmitigated failure and have contributed in a major way to the unfolding disaster there, while seriously imperiling our hard-won successes in Afghanistan and the larger war on terror beyond.
The ECB is one of Europe's successes: as our special report in this issue argues, the euro has proved a haven in the economic crisis so much so that no country seriously wants to leave it and plenty want to join.
Mr. President, I've come today to build upon these successes and to strengthen our multifaceted relationship.
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