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Mistake Quotes
"Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude."
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"When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes."
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"Mistakes are the only universal form of originality."
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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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"There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights."
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"A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable."
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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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"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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"He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery."
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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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"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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"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."
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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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"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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"We all make mistakes but one has to move on."
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"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it."
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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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"No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes."
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"When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything."
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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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"Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round."
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"You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president."
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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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"I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake."
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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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"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."
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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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"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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