"I think there are definitely things over the last year-and-a-half we would have done differently, ... I think we've at least learned as we go and hopefully we don't make the same mistake next time. ... I think if I said anything different to you, I'd be removed from reality."

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Paul DePodesta

#Mistake Quotes #Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”
“If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate.”
“While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points”

Source : John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”
“The process of change is made up of subtraction and addition. Taking something off and then puttin something on.”
“I've always wondered if there was a Hezbollah version of minesweeper where you get points for blowing up on your first move.”
“I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.”
“O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.”
“Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.”

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