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"It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake."
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"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."

"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

"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."

"Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing."

"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something."
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"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."

"We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation."

"I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."

"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."

"I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office."

"Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."

"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."
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