My wife’s uncle is a very successful businessman but he is not a very talented businessman. He built his company not on skill but on ruthless determination. I know any number of talented failures.
How many unfinished books do you have laying around?
- 28/07/2010 03:09:29 AM
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oh my gosh. I just realized I don't have any.
- 28/07/2010 03:12:23 AM
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A lot.
- 28/07/2010 03:35:05 AM
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Plenty of foreign books I see. I can't even finish books in English! *NM*
- 28/07/2010 03:39:38 AM
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Oh come on. L'Etranger is short, and interesting.
- 28/07/2010 10:27:33 AM
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- 28/07/2010 10:27:33 AM
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It's not as short when you read it in a foreign language
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- 28/07/2010 12:18:47 PM
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- 28/07/2010 12:18:47 PM
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True, but it's not too hard French either, as I recall. *NM*
- 28/07/2010 01:10:21 PM
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Ça, c'est vrai. Mais c'est bien plus difficile que la langue maternelle du lecteur. *NM*
- 28/07/2010 03:10:50 PM
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Vraiment, et j'étudiais ce langue pour juste deux ans.
- 28/07/2010 07:34:00 PM
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- 28/07/2010 07:34:00 PM
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I still think it's ridiculous to claim you're bad at languages.
- 28/07/2010 07:50:06 PM
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- 28/07/2010 07:50:06 PM
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Bull-headed perserverance isn't the same as skill.
- 28/07/2010 09:27:06 PM
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- 28/07/2010 09:27:06 PM
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Eh. Easily learning vocabulary isn't the same as skill, either.
- 28/07/2010 09:46:02 PM
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Re: Eh. Easily learning vocabulary isn't the same as skill, either.
- 02/08/2010 03:51:52 AM
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I guess you're an exception to what we were saying about people not knowing their own grammar.
- 02/08/2010 12:29:15 PM
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- 02/08/2010 12:29:15 PM
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no but it is often superior
- 29/07/2010 02:30:05 PM
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Just the ongoing ones, none I have given up on.
- 28/07/2010 03:13:19 PM
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Speaking as someone with a Masters of Accountancy I feel your pain *NM*
- 28/07/2010 04:12:19 PM
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Also, because this is really bugging me, "lying."
- 28/07/2010 09:50:30 PM
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OK
- 29/07/2010 05:15:28 PM
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Maybe a dozen but many of them were sources for school. I plan to read them because they...
- 30/07/2010 06:17:14 AM
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