#mist

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#difficulty #endemic #events #foreign #given

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#basket #certainly #court #decision #eggs

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#double #economist #english #english language #forward

I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#captain #had #i #learn #learned

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. ↗

— Antisthenes

#discover #first #mistakes #pay #pay attention

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. ↗

— David Attenborough

#climate #economic #economic situation #give #give me

I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement. ↗

— Nader al-Masri

#almighty #am #athlete #be the first #big

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#hand #maiden #mistress #poor #riches

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies. ↗

— Daisy Bates

#does #her #his #ideal #makes

The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry. ↗

— Derek Harold Richard Barton

#chemistry #first #serious #were