Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence.
Martin Jacques
HistoryProcessPoliticalAchieve
I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.
Mathias Rust
RegretGoalAchieveSawHappened
You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.
Katherine Jenkins
MistakesLearnYouAchieveThings
We must have as clear a picture as we can of the Australia that we want to achieve at the end of that time.
Lionel Murphy
TimeEndPictureAchieveAustralia
Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.
Mike Royko
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Many people leave government disillusioned about its ability to achieve change and cynical about politicians. I left with rather opposite lessons.
Geoff Mulgan
ChangeGovernmentPeopleAchieve
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
Les Brown
ChangeGoalsPresentYouAchieve
I've been in big clubs, but I want to achieve titles with Valencia.
Michy Batshuayi
AchieveWantBigTitlesBeenClubs
I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise.
Hayao Miyazaki
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If our main goal is to connect emotionally, we should want to have as many tools as we possibly can to achieve that goal. The more abilities that we have, the more choices we can make musically.
Ken Hill
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My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.
Monte Irvin
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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
Carlton Fisk
YouCareerAchieveOvercomeYour
In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
Kirk Douglas
BraveEnoughYouAchieveAnything
I've come around to thinking that having Donald Trump in the White House would be wonderful. Even if he isn't able to achieve very much. Now, daddy's gonna build the wall, daddy's gonna fix trade. That's going to happen.
Milo Yiannopoulos
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Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.
Adrienne Bailon
LifeSuccessJourneyAchieveComing
When you're wanting to delve into something, it's the one thing that cable television lets you achieve, in a way where you can have long form. There are no defined chapters. There are scenes, but everything's not bookended by a Chevy commercial.
Justin Theroux
LongYouTelevisionAchieveWay
The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.
Juan Goytisolo
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I could do whatever I wanted as a girl, whatever my brother did. I could play against the boys and achieve whatever they did.
Elena Delle Donne
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If you work at it, you can achieve it.
Jamie Brewer
WorkYouAchieve
Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very little philosophical speculation about how far we can go, how much we could achieve.
Jason Silva
PeopleAchieveGoGrowingCocktail
Interest rates are used to achieve overall economic stability.
Ben Bernanke
AchieveStabilityUsedEconomic
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Pondering, which means to weigh mentally, to deliberate, to meditate, can achieve the opening of the spiritual eyes of one's understanding.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
Yitzhak Rabin
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