“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“She’d walked a delicate line with commendable skill.
But sometimes the best case wasn’t good enough.”
— Alastair Reynolds, book The Prefect
Source: The Prefect (2007), Chapter 18 (p. 290)
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