"Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes."

-- David McCullough

#Mistake Quotes

“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”

Source : Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.305, Best Books on
“If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important.”
“I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me”
“Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.”
“But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure I don't sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction.”
“It is impossible to state in words how much this team means to me, how much Hulu means to me.”

Source : "Hulu CEO Jason Kilar to Exit" by Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 4, 2013.
“What is hope but futility for moments stood on end.”

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