"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances."

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"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances."

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"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."

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Theodore C. Sorensen, American Lawyer

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"Focus on remedies, not faults."

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Ava Gardner, American Actress

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"If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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Ornette Coleman, American Musician

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Tryon Edwards, American Theologian

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"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."

"You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you."

"I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for."

"Focus on remedies, not faults."

"Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing."

"Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong."

"If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others."

"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something."

"You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes."

"He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today."

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"The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."

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"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."

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"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."

"Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body."

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