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“Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much as possible, markets do occasionally fail, and when they do government can play a constructive role, as it did in the case of the auto rescue.”

Should Mind Wells Important Play Government Roles Cases Failing Lessons Rescue Constructive Private Sector Important Lessons

Author:Steven Rattner

“I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.”

Humans Action Individual Responsibility Roles Failing Blind Versus Personal Responsibility Snowflake Avalanches

Book:Ally

Source: Ally

“I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take that step, to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success, particularly in a creative field? Sure it does. But if you don't have the balls to give it a shot, you're destined to fail.”

People Ifs Giving Doe Play Steps Roles Creative Failing Fields Capable Lows Shots Balls Sight Luck Limitation Ruined Destined Always Believe

Book:No Regrets

Source: No Regrets

“With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to keep reading articles with titles such as Whatever Happened to Artificial Intelligence? This is a phenomenon that Turing had predicted: that machine intelligence would become so pervasive, so comfortable, and so well integrated into our information-based economy that people would fail even to notice it.”

Source: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

“I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.”

People Thinking Firsts Children Care President Roles Failing Husband Majors Take Care First Lady

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“Discerning the merits of competing claims is where the empirical basis of science should play a role. I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. What fails the test of empirical reality, as determined by observation and experiment, gets thrown out like yesterday's newspaper.”

Should Enough Play Reality Roles Failing Prove Tests Bases Claims Stress Determined Yesterday Newspapers Experiments Being True Observation Merit Thrown Competing Discerning

Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

“Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.”

“Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.”

Needs Process Roles Failing Succeed Demand Deny Driven Data Odds Predictions

Book:The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

Source: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

“We have to get the federal government out of the business of educating our kids and telling us how to do it. But when you look at how we are failing our kids and how the story that they hear about the United States and about the role we've played in the world and our role as the defender of freedom for millions across the world throughout history, you know, they aren't being prepared to stand up and work and fight and defend this nation.”

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Author:Liz Cheney