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Mistake Quotes
"I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake."
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"We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved."
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"I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions."
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"Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes."
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"Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice."
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"All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'."
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"I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz."
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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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"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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"It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour."
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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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"A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal."
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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 made a classic mistake. I held out for something better."
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"Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't."
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"I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative."
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"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent."
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"I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make."
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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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"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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"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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"Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop."
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"The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded."
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"But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about 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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"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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