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Mistake Quotes
"Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great."
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"Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake."
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"We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN."
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"Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude."
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"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake."
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"Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes."
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"The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there."
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"But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot."
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"Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't."
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"We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right."
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"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."
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"The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does."
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"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."
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"It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things."
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"If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed."
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"We all make mistakes but one has to move on."
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"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones."
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"I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances."
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"It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master."
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"Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake."
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"Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter."
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"But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets."
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"Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all."
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"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
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"There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting."
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"The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq."
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"We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period."
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