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Mistake Quotes
"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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"Mistakes are the only universal form of originality."
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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 lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat."
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"I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better."
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"Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions."
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"I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong."
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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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"You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president."
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"Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly."
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"The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does."
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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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"A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether."
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"Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?"
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"Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?"
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"No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes."
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"It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new."
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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, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter."
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"We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records."
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"We all make mistakes but one has to move on."
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"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
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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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"You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really."
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"The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq."
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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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"It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves."
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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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"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake."
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"I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?"
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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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