What called failure? Failure is the first step to something better.

什么叫做失败？失败是到达较佳境地的第一步。——菲里浦斯。

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On Thursday President Obama blamed the incident on what he called a "systemic failure across organizations and agencies."

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Kennedy, equally keen to avoid what he called "the final failure", responded in kind, and the world was brought back from the brink.

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Shadow chancellor George Osborne blamed the government for what he called a "catastrophic failure of bank regulation", contributing to the "longest and deepest recession" since the 1930s.

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Ampal pointed to what it called the Egyptian energy firms' "longstanding failure to supply the gas quantities owed" under the deal between the parties.

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