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Mistake Quotes
"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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"The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there."
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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 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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"Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves."
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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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"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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"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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"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."
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"A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once."
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"Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes."
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"I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true."
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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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"It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive."
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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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"He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery."
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"Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes."
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"Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all."
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"When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played."
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"The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision."
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"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
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