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• The only accident [at Three Mile Island] is that this thing leaked out.
  You could have avoided this whole thing by not saying anything....
• It could have happened. John Tower could have been the Defense Sec.
  and a girl named Dixie could have been named to the Joint Chiefs of Staff....
• The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.
  -- John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892, U.S. poe...
• Real hindsight can show us very clearly what could have been easily prevented by a little more foresight.
• Homer: Dad, how come you never gave me any encouragement?
  Maybe I could have been something more than I am....
• Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands?
  No one knows. No one can find out. -- Edward Telle...
• The daily press and the telegraph which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole world, fabricate more myths .
  .. in a day than could have formerly been done in a century. -- Karl Marx (1818-1883)...
• What I do, first thing [in the morning], is I hop into the shower stall.
  Then I hop right back out, because when I hopped in I landed barefoot right on top of See Threepio, a little plastic robot character from "Star Wars" whom my son, Robert, likes to pull the legs off of while he showers....