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Mistake Quotes
"I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake."
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"Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice."
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"A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once."
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"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political."
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"Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China."
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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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"Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration."
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"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake."
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"I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes."
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"We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes."
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"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings."
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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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"Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all."
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"I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it."
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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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"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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"Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't."
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"Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great."
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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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"And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake."
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"Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives."
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"I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this."
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"I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky."
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"Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't."
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"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums."
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"Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round."
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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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