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Scott A. Sandage

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[Wikipedia] Scott A. Sandage is a cultural historian at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known as the author of Born Losers: A History of Failure in America, which was selected as an "Editor's Choice" book by Atlantic Monthly, and was awarded the 34th Annual Thomas J. Wilson Prize, for the best "first boo

Quotes by Scott A. Sandage

“The age of the self-made man was also the age of the broken man... This ‘American sense’ looked upon failure as a…

Scott A. Sandage

Broken man

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“A century ago, in his 1905 classic work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber argued that striving for…

Scott A. Sandage

American culture

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“In early America, fear of failure loomed largest on Sunday. Monday morning dawned about the year i8oo. By then, "failure" meant an…

Scott A. Sandage

Failure

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“We do this because a century and a half ago we embraced business as the dominant model for our outer and inner…

Scott A. Sandage

Bottom line

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“I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of…

Scott A. Sandage

Business

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“Someday they would rise and fall in the world the sermon presaged, where berry picking was a higher crime than bankruptcy. If…

Scott A. Sandage

American dream

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“By 19oo, anybody could end up "a `Nobody,"' plodding down the "many paths leading to the Land of `Nowhere."' Failure had become…

Scott A. Sandage

Failure

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“Debtors and idlers abounded in the colonial era, but failing in business was not so calamitous as falling from grace... In Early…

Scott A. Sandage

Business

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“To call a man "a complete failure" tallied both the economics of capitalism and the economics of selfhood; that is, the external…

Scott A. Sandage

Failure

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