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In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply. ↗

— T. Berry Brazelton

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There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors. ↗

— James Buchan

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. ↗

— Elias Canetti

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The future is as bright as the promises of God. ↗

— William Carey

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I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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