"It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken."

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"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"I made a lot of mistakes, one of them was to promise. I must stop promise, the promise is like something which you in everytime in any case you must do what you said you will do! - That's why I hate it!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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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."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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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."

Ben Harper, American Musician

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Tommy Shaw, American Musician

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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."

Patricia Highsmith, American Novelist

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"Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.O hateful error, Melancholy's child,Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of menThe things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,But kill'st the mother that engendered thee."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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."

Nick Rahall, American Politician

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"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

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"This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition."

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"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself."

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"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing."

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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

Beginning

"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself."

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"But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'"

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"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."

"I made a lot of mistakes, one of them was to promise. I must stop promise, the promise is like something which you in everytime in any case you must do what you said you will do! - That's why I hate it!"

"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."

"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

"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."

"We're kind of defined by our mistakes."

"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."

"Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.O hateful error, Melancholy's child,Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of menThe things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,But kill'st the mother that engendered thee."

"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."

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"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

"This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition."

"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself."

"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing."

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"Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation."

"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself."

"But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'"