A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. – Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies
Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
If were given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and its amazing how good we are at it. – Jon Brion
Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, theyd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily. – Boutros Boutros-Ghali