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Mistake Quotes
"It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it."
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"The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it."
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"Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot."
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"Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important."
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"If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right."
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"If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim."
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"Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration."
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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."
"Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election."
"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
"The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it."
"I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them."
"It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes."
"A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal."
"Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything."
"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."
"Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit."
"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
"The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings."
"We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records."
"A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable."
"We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins."
"Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake."
"A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once."
"The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office."
"A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure."
"Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake."
"I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it."
"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."
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