The consequences of a misstep in a well, while large to the immediate people that live around that well, in the great scheme of things are pretty small, and even to the immediate people around the well, they could be mitigated.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.
If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions.
People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures - joined with the similar failures of others - can readily have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.
In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.