"There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it."

Lakhdar Brahimi, Algerian Public Servant

Error, Luck, May, Succeed

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"There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it."

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"There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people."

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"There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them."

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"Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority."

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"What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something."

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"You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up."

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"Afghanistan is a land-locked country."

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"But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan."

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"The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that."

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"However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another."

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"In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars."

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"Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before."

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"Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it."

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"It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error."

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"If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human."

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