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In the chaos of wandering hearts and mismapped geographies, navigational serendipity unfolds not because we found our destination, but because our uncharted curiosity leads us to breathtaking horizons unknown.
Author:
El Lui
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I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.
Author:
Neil Young
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It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks.
Author:
John Yoo
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I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.
Author:
Boris Yeltsin
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A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.
Author:
Ed Wynn
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Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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Never mistake activity for achievement.
Author:
John Wooden
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We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.
Author:
James Wilson
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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
Author:
Roy Williams
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I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.
Author:
Maurice Wilkins
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I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.
Author:
Kim Wilde
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A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
Author:
William White
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
Author:
Vanna White
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Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.
Author:
Anthony Weiner
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We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.
Author:
Anthony Weiner
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And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.
Author:
Sanford Weill
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If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.
Author:
Sanford Weill
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Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
Author:
Thomas Watson, Sr.
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It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
Author:
Mercy Warren
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Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.
Author:
Josiah Warren
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
Author:
Earl Warren
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You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
Author:
An Wang
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The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.
Author:
George Wald
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I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.
Author:
Jesse Ventura
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When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
Author:
Wietse Venema
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Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Author:
Dale Turner
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It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
Author:
Dale Turner
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People mistake their limitations for high standards.
Author:
Jean Toomer
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Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.
Author:
William Thompson
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We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.
Author:
Ken Thompson
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Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Author:
Mother Teresa
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He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.
Author:
Terence
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The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
Author:
Deborah Tannen
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Author:
Thomas Szasz
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.
Author:
Janet Suzman
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You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes.
Author:
Jim Sullivan
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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Author:
Anne Sullivan
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I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.
Author:
Parker Stevenson
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They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
Author:
Casey Stengel
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear.
Author:
Rod Steiger
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When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.
Author:
Willie Stargell
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Author:
Madame Stael
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I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.
Author:
Theodore Sorensen
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
Author:
Barry Sonnenfeld
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It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.
Author:
Tony Snow
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
Author:
Yeardley Smith
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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Author:
Samuel Smiles
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Author:
Samuel Smiles
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We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Author:
Samuel Smiles
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Author:
Samuel Smiles
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
Author:
B. Skinner
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Author:
Ignazio Silone
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I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.
Author:
Michelle Shocked
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In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.
Author:
Bobby Sherman
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Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
Author:
George Shaw
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Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.
Author:
Jerry Seinfeld
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Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.
Author:
Martha Scott
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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
Author:
Charles Schumer
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At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.
Author:
Debbie Schultz
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The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
Author:
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.
Author:
Otto Schily
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It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.
Author:
Jim Saxton
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Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.
Author:
Valentine Saint-Point
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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.
Author:
Mickey Rourke
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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women.
Author:
Nicolas Roeg
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.
Author:
Phil Rizzuto
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If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.
Author:
George Ripley
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I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.
Author:
Elliot Richardson
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I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
Author:
Ann Richards
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
Author:
Sam Rayburn
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A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.
Author:
Nick Rahall
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
Author:
Alain Prost
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A great many people mistake opinions for thought.
Author:
Herbert Prochnow
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The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
Author:
Herbert Prochnow
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Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake.
Author:
Steve Powers
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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Author:
John Powell
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
Author:
Ezra Pound
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Most of the people who get off at our exit get off by mistake. They thought it was Exit 57.
Author:
Tom Perkins
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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
Author:
Claude Pepper
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To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.
Author:
Dave Pelzer
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It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.
Author:
Lester Pearson
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As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.
Author:
James Payn
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
Author:
Cesare Pavese
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Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?
Author:
Sarah Parker
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
Author:
Orhan Pamuk
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I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.
Author:
Rafael Palmeiro
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The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
Author:
Brian Palma
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My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
Author:
Mohammed Pahlavi
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The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake.
Author:
Jim Otto
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God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
Author:
Joel Osteen
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
Author:
Adam Osborne
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So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.
Author:
Bobby Orr
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I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Author:
Barack Obama
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I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.
Author:
Jim Nussle
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I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.
Author:
Andre Norton
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Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.
Author:
Kristi Noem
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Woman was God's second mistake.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Author:
Horatio Nelson
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
Author:
Ralph Nader
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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Author:
Edward Murrow
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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
Author:
Akio Morita
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There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.
Author:
Marilyn Monroe
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I think I made a mistake once... yeah... it was only once.
Author:
Jay Mohr
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I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
Author:
Arthur Miller
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I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.
Author:
Tiffeny Milbrett
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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.
Author:
Paul Meyer
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Author:
H. Mencken
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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Author:
Peter McWilliams
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Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.
Author:
Martin McGuinness
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I knew I wanted to play "Dr Cox" really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.
Author:
John McGinley
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A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.
Author:
Frank McCourt
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By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.
Author:
Mitch McConnell
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Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.
Author:
William Mayo
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The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
Author:
John Maxwell
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
Author:
W. Maugham
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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
Author:
Walter Martin
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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
Author:
Steve Martin
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Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.
Author:
Dorothy Malone
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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
Author:
John Major
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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
Author:
Loretta Lynn
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You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.
Author:
Lawrence Lovasik
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It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.
Author:
Sophia Loren
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Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
Author:
James Longstreet
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There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting.
Author:
Augustus Longstreet
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It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
Author:
Donal Logue
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It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
Author:
Alphonsus Liguori
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We can afford almost any mistake once.
Author:
Joe Lewis
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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Author:
Stephen Leacock
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I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.
Author:
Pierre Laval
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A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Author:
Doug Larson
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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
Author:
Ring Lardner
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No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
Author:
Walter Lang
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I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.
Author:
Frank Lampard
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I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
Author:
Shia LaBeouf
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I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.
Author:
Lisa Kudrow
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It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
Author:
Stanley Kubrick
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People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.
Author:
Peter Krause
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
Author:
Fletcher Knebel
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Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop.
Author:
Jurgen Klinsmann
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
Author:
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.
Author:
Edward Kennedy
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He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.
Author:
Christine Keeler
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A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
Author:
Pauline Kael
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It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.
Author:
Junius
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Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
Author:
Chief Joseph
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."
Author:
Barbara Jordan
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Author:
Franklin Jones
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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Author:
Franklin Jones
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Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
Author:
E. Jones
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I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.
Author:
Angelina Jolie
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
Author:
George Jessel
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The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
Author:
Tahar Jelloun
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I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.
Author:
Jim Jeffords
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I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.
Author:
Jim Jarmusch
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I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.
Author:
Bianca Jagger
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I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Author:
David Irving
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Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.
Author:
Jay Inslee
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That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.
Author:
Lauren Hutton
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Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
Author:
Elbert Hubbard
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The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this.
Author:
Terrence Howard
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If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
Author:
Vladimir Horowitz
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I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.
Author:
Vladimir Horowitz
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It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.
Author:
Peter Hook
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But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.
Author:
Peter Hook
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Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit.
Author:
Evander Holyfield
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Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.
Author:
Patricia Highsmith
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Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
Author:
George Herbert
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The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.
Author:
Joe Henderson
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Never mistake motion for action.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.
Author:
William Hearst
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I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.
Author:
Patty Hearst
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As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
Author:
John Hawkes
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And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.
Author:
Gregory Harrison
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Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.
Author:
Stephen Harper
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You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
Author:
Ben Harper
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It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
Author:
Garrett Hardin
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Author:
Alexander Hamilton
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Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.
Author:
Robert Half
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I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.
Author:
Jurgen Habermas
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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
Author:
G. Gurdjieff
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Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.
Author:
Kenny Guinn
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The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.
Author:
Raul Grijalva
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While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.
Author:
Raul Grijalva
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In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.
Author:
Daniel Greenberg
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You make a mistake, you keep going.
Author:
Linda Gray
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Don't mistake niceness for weakness.
Author:
Jennifer Granholm
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A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Author:
Katharine Graham
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We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible.
Author:
Rob Glaser
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Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
Author:
William Gladstone
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Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
Author:
Vince Gill
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We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.
Author:
David Gill
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We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn't been made.
Author:
David Gill
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Man is nature's sole mistake.
Author:
William Gilbert
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I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Author:
Edward Gibbon
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It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
Author:
Boutros Ghali
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And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.
Author:
Jami Gertz
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I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love.
Author:
Sarah Gellar
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The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.
Author:
Timothy Geithner
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Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.
Author:
Ava Gardner
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
Author:
R. Fuller
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I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.
Author:
John Frusciante
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A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Author:
Robert Fripp
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There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
Author:
Robert Fripp
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America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.
Author:
Liam Fox
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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
Author:
Emmet Fox
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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Author:
Henry Ford
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Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
Author:
Steve Forbes
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The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.
Author:
Steve Forbes
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I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.
Author:
Shelby Foote
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I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.
Author:
Bridget Fonda
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Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.
Author:
John Flynn
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Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem.
Author:
Mike Fitzpatrick
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Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.
Author:
Neil Finn
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It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
Author:
Millard Fillmore
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When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
Author:
Bryan Ferry
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But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.
Author:
Geraldine Ferraro
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I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?
Author:
Sarah Ferguson
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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
Author:
Ben Elton
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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
Author:
George Eliot
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Author:
Umberto Eco
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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Author:
Meister Eckhart
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But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.
Author:
Gregg Easterbrook
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A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
Author:
Bob Dylan
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Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
Author:
Peter Drucker
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Author:
Arthur Doyle
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Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.
Author:
John Doolittle
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
Author:
Vincent D'Onofrio
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Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.
Author:
Lexa Doig
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I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.
Author:
John Dingell
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The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there.
Author:
John Dingell
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A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
Author:
Phyllis Diller
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APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
Author:
Edsger Dijkstra
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Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.
Author:
Ani DiFranco
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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
Author:
Denis Diderot
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I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.
Author:
Janice Dickinson
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
Author:
Rene Descartes
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Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.
Author:
Tom Daschle
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The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
Author:
Alvin Dark
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So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.
Author:
Hugh Dancy
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Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.
Author:
Al D'Amato
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Every decision you make is a mistake.
Author:
Edward Dahlberg
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It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.
Author:
Richard Curtis
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The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
Author:
George Curtis
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The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.
Author:
George Crook
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
Author:
Hansie Cronje
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Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.
Author:
Jerry Costello
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Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
Author:
Bill Cosby
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The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.
Author:
Gerry Cooney
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I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.
Author:
Michael Connelly
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I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having.
Author:
Robbie Coltrane
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Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
Author:
Joan Collins
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Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
Author:
Nick Clooney
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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
Author:
Lucille Clifton
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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Author:
Winston Churchill
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It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
Author:
Lydia Child
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I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.
Author:
Michael Chertoff
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I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.
Author:
Gary Cherone
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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Author:
Anton Chekhov
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Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.
Author:
Lois Capps
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If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.
Author:
Miguel Cabrera
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I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.
Author:
James Byrnes
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As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.
Author:
Jane Byrne
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.
Author:
Judith Butler
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The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.
Author:
George Bush
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Author:
Anthony Burgess
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Author:
Pearl Buck
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Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.
Author:
Tina Brown
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The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.
Author:
Sherrod Brown
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
Author:
David Brin
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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Author:
Bertolt Brecht
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We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.
Author:
Ben Bradlee
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Author:
Christian Bovee
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There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
Author:
Phyllis Bottome
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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
Author:
Nelson Boswell
