“The struggles, the victories that aren't really victories, the...” – Inconvenient Truth, An ... Movie Quotes Database

The struggles, the victories that aren't really victories, the defeats that aren't really defeats, they can serve to magnify the significance of some trivial step forward, exaggerate the seeming importance of some massive setback.

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Making mistakes in centuries and generations past would have consequences that we could overcome. We don't have that luxury anymore. Old Habits plus Old Technology have predictable consequences. Old Habits, that are hard to change, plus New Technology can have dramatically altered consequences. We have to think differently about war. Because the new technologies so completely transform the consequences of that old habit that we can't just mindlessly continue the patterns of the past.