"At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on."

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Source : Robert S. McNamara (2004). “Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film”

Robert McNamara

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“All people believe their suffering is greater than others.”
“Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity.”
“Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.”
“The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.”

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“My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.”
“Beauty is not in outer perfection but rather in the amount of light we allow to shine through the very thing obscuring our souls.”
“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.”
“We are immortal till our work is done.”

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