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

"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."

"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."

"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake."
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"The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws."

"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."

"The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation."

"The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way."

"The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people."

"We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything."

"My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it."

"The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility."

"Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place."
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