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"It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken."
Gertrude Stein
"It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken."
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"Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries."
Bill Cosby
"Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries."
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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."
Peter Hook
"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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"The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship."
Deborah Tannen
"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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"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."
Robert M. Hutchins
"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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"I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot."
R. Lee Ermey
"I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot."
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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."
Xi Zhi
"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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"Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error."
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"I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake."
Elliot Richardson
"I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic 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."
Jessamyn West
"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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"The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one."
John C. Maxwell
"The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one."
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"It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake."
Dean Acheson
"It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake."
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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."
Anthony Weiner
"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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"To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."
Plutarch
"To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."
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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."
Andre Norton
"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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"Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on."
Les Brown
"Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on."
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"The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault."
Jacques Delors
"The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault."
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"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom."
Jonathan Swift
"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom."
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"If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn."
Earl Warren
"If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn."
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"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."
Walter Bagehot
"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."
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"The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."
Liz Smith
"The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."
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"You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really."
Janet Suzman
"You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really."
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"I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions."
Jeane Kirkpatrick
"I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions."
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"Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes."
Jerry Bruckheimer
"Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes."
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"And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early."
Gregory Harrison
"And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early."
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"When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause."
Wietse Venema
"When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause."
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"Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake."
Brian Boitano
"Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake."
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"I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans."
Michael Chertoff
"I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans."
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"It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves."
Samuel Richardson
"It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves."
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"A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness."
Bryant McGill
"A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness."
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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."
Dale Turner
"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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"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."
Judith Butler
"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."
Nelson Boswell
"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake."
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"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."
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"I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz."
David Irving
"I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz."
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"I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people.""
Barbara Jordan
"I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people.""
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"Faultless to a fault."
Robert Browning
"Faultless to a fault."
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"I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff."
Gary Cherone
"I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff."
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"I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear."
Rod Steiger
"I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear."
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"The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style."
Fred Astaire
"The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style."
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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."
G. I. Gurdjieff
"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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"An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve."
Ring Lardner
"An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve."
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"The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking."
Alvin Dark
"The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking."
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"Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made."
Joseph J. Ellis
"Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made."
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"That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault."
Don Young
"That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault."
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"We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things."
Anthony Weiner
"We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things."
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"If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake."
Vladimir Horowitz
"If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake."
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"Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?"
Jacques Plante
"Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?"
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"I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it."
Fiona Apple
"I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it."
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"It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means."
Lydia M. Child
"It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means."
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