Both are best enjoyed in a moderation seldom easy to maintain, and both owe their success to the most smugly contented cows you are ever likely to see.

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Miss Domoto, Mr Tanaka, Mr Ishihara and the other unruly governors owe their success to their independence.

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Of those that work, some may owe their success to a powerful, binding ideology (as in the United States), backed by laws, history and, sometimes, a single language.

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Netflix doesn't owe its success to an amazing website.

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They owe their success primarily to their pitchers, whose combined 2.36 earned-run average entering Tuesday was the best in the majors.

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Claritin may owe much of its success to the marketing prowess Kogan honed while hawking peanuts at Yankee Stadium in his youth.

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Though the plaudits have almost exclusively been for the players, the Czechs owe much of their success to the tactical acumen of their coach.

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We owe this season's success to veterans like Rasheed.

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Everything I have - my career, my success, my family - I owe to America.

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The success of the iPad and Samsung Galaxy range owe a great deal to ARM brainpower.

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As we outline in the Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability, such success will require that boards of directors of both companies and large institutional investors, who owe a fiduciary duty to their shareholders and beneficiaries, become the agents of long-term value creation.

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