"We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes."

Mistake, Mistakes

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"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."

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

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"A mistake is a stepping stone to success."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."

Billy Joel, American Musician

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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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"We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Mistake, Faults, Order

"Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Mistake, Regret, Awareness, Time, Choice

"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go."

Barack Obama, American President

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"I don't have a strong interest in history."

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"In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists."

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"I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon."

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"As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease."

Family, Childhood, Disease, Population

"Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!"

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"I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational."

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"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."

"A mistake is a stepping stone to success."

"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."

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

"We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones."

"Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side."

"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."

"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."

"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."

"Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go."

Explore more quotes by Larry Niven

"We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid."

"I don't have a strong interest in history."

"In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists."

"I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon."

"In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up."

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"As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease."

"Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!"

"I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational."