Failure
Both words in one sentence
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In Fate Zero Sanity, Saber has two: Her canon failure to prevent Camelot's fall and her role in Mordred's betrayal, refusing to acknowledge her as her successor due to her bitterness against Morgan le Fay.
Source: My Greatest Failure - Cave Johnson also counts, refusing to let government investigations, years of failure, bankruptcy, and his own staggering incompetence stop him from doing SCIENCE!
Source: Determinator / Video Games - Light Yagami of Death Note has his overwhelming pride, which reaches A God Am I at its worst and blinds him to the point of refusing to even contemplate his own failure.
Source: Fatal Flaw
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