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Mistake Quotes
"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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"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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"I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful."
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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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"Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes."
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"The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism."
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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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"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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"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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"This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault."
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"Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake."
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"The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there."
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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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"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a 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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"Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't."
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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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"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
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"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings."
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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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"A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat."
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"Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?"
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"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."
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