And we with our small vanities , our controlled hunger for climbing and getting as far as everybody else has gotten because it seems that is the way of the world :
as endless tracks of champions and in a corner we , forgotten may be because of everybody else , since they seemed to much like us until they were robbed of their laurels, their medals, their titles , their names .
Pick out the expressions from the extract showing the failure of man .

Explanation

Robbed of their laurels, their medals , their titles , their names.