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Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?Originally asked
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I’d like to say sorry to my mother. I had to choose between my parents, and I chose my father because he didn’t have any other kids. (My mother was a war widow and had two children from her first marriage.) I thought, in a childish way, that one had to be fair. It was very difficult for my mother and me, and we never really got over it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2016 source ↗
I wish I could say sorry to my husband, because I couldn’t save him from his dementia.
I've mentioned that we strongly prefer to use cash rather than Berkshire stock in acquisitions. A study of the record will tell you why: If you aggregate all of our stock-only mergers (excluding those we did with two affiliated companies, Diversified Retailing and Blue Chip Stamps), you will find that our shareholders are slightly worse off than they would have been had I not done the transactions. Though it hurts me to say it, when I've issued stock, I've cost you money.
To my teachers in high school - that I didn't punch them in the mouth for discouraging all my interests.
The man who asked me directions on the subway seven years ago: I am so sorry for sending you to Queens rather than to the Bronx.
The problem with my job is that you meet people you admire and then you don’t admire them so much. The only one I carried on admiring was Nelson Mandela.
Comfort, warmth and security.
Reading the news. It’s a dull job.
I would have behaved better to my first wife, and the girl I lived with afterwards. I was always away.
Recently, when I got out of hospital and into my own bed with my wife and 10-year-old son; we watched some crap television and life had never seemed better.
Samira Ahmed, Gloria Steinem, Jon Snow, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Sadiq Khan, Caroline Lucas
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