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The MistakeWith the mistake your life goes in reverse.Now you can see exactly what you didWrong yest...

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In any case, while it is all very well to talk of 'turning points', one can surely only recognise su...

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Naturally—and why should I not admit this—I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might ha...

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I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

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I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

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I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

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But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian s...

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People change, though, especially after they are dead.

Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innume...

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To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the human...

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Sarah VowellLafayette in the Somewhat United States

the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity;...

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I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with signific...

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It is easy to be wise after the event.

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Complete Sherlock Holmes

Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our prede...

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Charles MackayExtraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise

What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the ge...

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