“Knowledge, of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.”

— Tim O'Brien, book The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried (1990), On the Rainy River

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American novelist 1946

Jenny Colgan (1972) British writer

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“Of course Ben Carson advisors can't make him smart, you can't change its brain. That's a job for a neurosurgeon. It's the same when your barber has a #### haircut.”

Trevor Noah (1984) South African comedian

18 November 2015 <br class="br">The Daily Show <br class="br">Source: Visible at 00:50 di Ben Carson's Public Breakup http://www.cc.com/video-clips/2ybqd8/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-ben-carson-blames-the-victims, CC.com, 18 novembre 2015.

“the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!”

Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author

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“Herb… herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

As recorded in filmed interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsfYAJ3dQyY&feature=player_embedded (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand <br class="br">Context: All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?

“We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.”

Curtis Sittenfeld (1975) Novelist, short story writer

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