A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. Winston churchill
I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.' Curt Schilling
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose. Tony blair
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.Leonardo Da Vinci
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. Barbara Deming