In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, … - Richard Holbrooke

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Richard Holbrooke

In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided.

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