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Don't we all wish that "hindsight is always 20/20" could be "foresight is always 20/20"? A good deal of humanity's problems could have been avoided that way. Alas, such it is not to be.
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Originally posted by Seneca
Benny Hill.
Excellence can be attained if you Care more than other think is wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical and Expect more than others think is possible.
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Civil WarIn da butt.
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Exploiting, starving and demoralising the native people of Canada throughout our histry."It woulda been nice to have naked midgets serving us cocktails everyday." - Brandon Boyd of Incubus
"...gays who, because they just NEEDED their orgies..." -Mr. A. SpeerComment
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And Celine Dion. *shudder*"It woulda been nice to have naked midgets serving us cocktails everyday." - Brandon Boyd of Incubus
"...gays who, because they just NEEDED their orgies..." -Mr. A. SpeerComment
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We might be @ssholes, but we're the most powerful bunch of @*******s in the world, so if you don't like it, you can go to Mars.Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Moving in next to a bunch of @ssholes.
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Slavery. The basic contradiction between what the Constitution says and what was actually done seriously screwed us up.
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Originally posted by faded glory
Shutup troll
You can´t weasel your way out of this one, faded.I said I regret the way it happened. But it had to happen. Otherwise, had we halted at the mississippi. The french would of just populated the area and drove them out. And god knows, the french werent the nicest folks at the time. You endorse genocide (as you said; it had to happen), blaming the french is excruciatingly weak argumentation...
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Australia's biggest mistakes...
1. Electing John Howard
2. Re-electing John Howard
3. Re-electing John Howard again"Corporation, n, An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." -- Ambrose Bierce
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction." -- Thomas JeffersonComment
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I think UK's best mistake is not acting to stop Hitler in the 1936-1938 period, instead of helping the France stoping him so stoping the WW2, the one down side would be a small local war!Play the Demo Games!!
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Greece's biggest mistakes:
1. Megali Idea (1840s-1922)
2. Civil war (1944-1949)
3. Accepting a Bavarian king appointed by the major powers (1833)
Greek civilisation's biggest mistakes:
1. Alexander's decision to go to the East first and then to the West.
2. Keeping the Arabs and Turks out of Europe for 800 years.
3. The schizm (800 and 1054), though it was a joint mistake."In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George OrwellComment
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How can anyone say that nuking millions of innocent civilians wasn't Americas biggest mistake?Comment
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well saidComment
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Err... though it's a nitpick: it wasn't "millions."Originally posted by Phil_de_geezer
How can anyone say that nuking millions of innocent civilians wasn't Americas biggest mistake?
Second, though I think in retrospect that the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima was wrong (I would have preferred a warning blast first), there are many who accept it as a means to an end. The casualty projections for a conventional invasion of Japan were pretty bad, both in terms of US troops and Japanese troops & civilians. It was in the context of an all-out war.
So, while I do think the nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were mistakes, I still rank slavery higher on my list of US mistakes.
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The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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I'm not going to start the A-bomb-rant here. Not anywhere.
But how about the genocide of the indians? Wasn't that a big mistake?I'm not a complete idiot: some parts are still missing.Comment
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