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When reminded of mistakes she'd made in her life, positions she'd taken that 
over her life proved not to be supportable, the poet Maya Angilou summed up 
her handling of it as  "When you knew better, you did better."

The one commodity that wastes life is a lack of the composed logic that gives 
one the fortitude to grasp the nettle, as it were, to actually look at the 
numbers and deal with them no matter how unpleasant they might be.  The 
alternative which, alas, so many adopt is a fear based indulgence in 
illusions which 
are given a spin to pass as something smacking of a bit more nobility ... and 
called opitmism.

Thus predisposed, a person tends to saw off the board three times and lament 
that it is still too short.  Everything is done twice, or three times in 
their 
lives when once would have done nicely had they only seen the folly of doing 
the same thing repeatedly and hoping each time for a different result.

It's a great help to find that bit of flint from time to time that enhances 
and corrects what logic has built.  Alas, once must often mine in the slag of 
ideas generated by those who buffet about in a fear-and-blame tizzy.  

Ah, well, the pan comes up empty this time.  Better mining in the future.