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"We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes."
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Personal Development
"Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake."
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Personal Development
"Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round."
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Personal Development
"A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once."
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Personal Development
"We can afford almost any mistake once."
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Personal Development
"Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes."
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Personal Development
"Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven."
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Personal Development
"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."
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"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular."
Heaven
"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing-a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."
Mortality
"I work as my father drank."
Personal
"Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children."
Family
"From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way."
Art
"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
Patriotism
"Most people do not pray they only beg."
Religion
"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains."
Education
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"
Dream
"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time."
Writing
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