"A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable."

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"A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable."

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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."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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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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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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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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"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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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

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"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

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"Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative."

Music

"Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language."

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"What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely."

Want

"The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language."

Fact

"There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake."

Mistake

"But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training."

Attention

"So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending."

End

"Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance."

Performance

"Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things."

First

"Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible."

People