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Mistake Quotes
"The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few."
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"It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are."
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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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"Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice."
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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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"I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong."
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"No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes."
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"And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake."
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"I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess."
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"It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience."
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"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something."
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"It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task."
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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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"Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake."
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"Mistakes are the only universal form of originality."
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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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"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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"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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"Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake."
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"Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers."
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"To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on."
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"One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you."
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"Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem."
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"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
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"I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it."
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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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"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 look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass."
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"Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation."
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"It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there."
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