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"He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery."
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"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."
"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."
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
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"Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them."
"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles."
"Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry."
"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."
"The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted."
"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."
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