If there is a wrong thing to do, it will be done, infallibly. One has come to believe in that as if it were a law of nature.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Diary Entry (1941-05-18), “First War-Time Diary”
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In context, Orwell is complaining about what he considers squandered opportunities by Britain to occupy Vichy French territories, such as Syria, before Germany could make use of them.
See Murphy's Law.
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CALVIN: My life needs a rewind/erase button.
HOBBES: … And a volume control.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet and critic
Comment (1830-10-05), “Table Talk”
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