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“Every politician I talk to seems to say the same thing: "Now is not the time to point fingers." Spin doctors even come up with the term blame game. "I'm not going to play the blame game," they say, dismissing you when you ask for answers, for the names of officials who made key decisions. I notice that some reporters start using the term too. I can't understand why. Demanding accountability is no game, and there's nothing wrong with trying to understand who made mistakes, who failed. If no one is held accountable for their decisions, for their actions, all of this will happen again. Not one person has yet to stand up and admit wrongdoing. No politician, no bureaucrat, has admitted a specific mistake. Some have made blanket statements, saying they accept responsibility for whatever went wrong. But that's not good enough. We need to know specifics. What was done wrong? What were the mistakes? I ask any official I can. No one will answer. The only "mistakes" they admit to are actually veiled criticisms of others. The mayor should have declared a mandatory evacuation on Saturday, instead of waiting until Sunday. Precious hours were lost. The governor could have done that as well, but didn't. They could have moved hundreds of city buses and local school buses to higher ground and used them to evacuate the nearly one hundred thousand residents who had no access to private transportation. They didn't. There were plenty of mistakes to go around. I just want someone to admit to them.”

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Book:Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
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“We all make mistakes whether they be little or great. The question is not whether you will avoid making mistakes because no matter what happens, you will always make one at some point of time. The question is whether you shall carry the burden of guilt and belittle yourself forever or whether you shall wisen up and choose to become a better person.”

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Book:Inspirational Sayings: Get Super Motivated and Achieve Amazing Success through Inspirational Sayings!
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“Don't Hide Your Past (The Sonnet) The first few minutes of my first stage talk were absolute disaster. First few books were mere intellectual commentary, lacking in original Naskar. Don't beat yourself up for the follies of your early years. Doesn't matter, you made mistakes, what counts is, you outgrew your errors. If a life claims a flawless history, rest assured, it's a concoction of lies. Flawlessness is mark of lifelessness, to be alive means to be battered by cries. Mistakes are the cornerstones of clarity, they wire your unique perception in place. Absence of error is the end of living sanity, to fabricate your past is to obliterate yourself.”

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Book:The Humanitarian Dictator
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“If the only thing I can learn from a situation is that some humans do bad things, it's a waste of my precious time -- I already know that. What I want to know is: What can this teach me/us about how to improve our humanity?”

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Book:Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
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“Im besten Fall entscheidet man richtig, im zweitbesten Fall falsch, korrigiert die Entscheidung aber, und im schlechtesten Fall entscheidet man nicht. Ja, es gibt Menschen, auch in der Politik, welche die Maxime haben: Jedes Problem löst sich von selbst. Das ist für mich eine unhaltbare Einstellung.”

AttitudeMistakes
Book:Der Berset-Code: Die Resilienz-Strategien von Alain Berset – Ein Dialog
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“I always wanted magic to be real, and now I know that this world is much stranger and more miraculous than it appears. But I believe, more than I believe anything else, that the true miracle and beauty in life comes from living it. I hope you will come to agree with me. I know you're struggling this year, and I wish I could help you more. I wish I could be with you to help figure it all out. But I'll tell you the secret: no one has it figured out. The joy comes from figuring it out. One day at a time. Live your life, all of it, full of magic and miracles and beauty and pain and sorrow. You'll be glad you did. I am.”

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Book:The Things We Miss
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“The deepest part of you is NOT your mistakes or your failures. When God looks at you, He sees so much deeper than your mistakes to your actual identity, your true worth and value. And those of us who love you can see that part, too. So get a better perspective and live that truth out.”

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Book:I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
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“When I say misfit, I’m talking about the fact that some of us just never found a way to fit in at all, from the get-go, all through our evolving lives, including in the present tense. I’m talking about how some of us experience that altered state of missing any kind of fitting in so profoundly that we nearly can’t make it in life. We serially flounder, or worse, we drown in our inabilities or mistakes, or even worse—since I’m old enough to understand that sometimes some of us don’t make it at all—we give up. Love and peace to the star stuff that carries those misfits we have lost too soon.”

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Book:The Misfit's Manifesto
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