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Mistake Quotes
"Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great."
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"The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!"
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"We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible."
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"The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it."
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"Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes."
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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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"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."
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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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"The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship."
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"People mistake their limitations for high standards."
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"You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder."
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"Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions."
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"I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them."
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"The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does."
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"Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake."
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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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"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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"It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive."
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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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"Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers."
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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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"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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"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
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"You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really."
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"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much."
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"Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media."
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"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake."
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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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"I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes."
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