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Mistake Quotes
"Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it."
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"A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure."
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"Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake."
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"Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important."
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"I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio."
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"I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it."
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"I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes."
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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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"The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision."
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"Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been."
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"It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes."
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"I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one."
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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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"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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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
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"I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine."
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"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
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"Find fault with thyself rather than with others."
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"Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake."
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"If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake."
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"Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there."
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"It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat."
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"A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once."
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"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."
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"Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake."
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"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
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"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."
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"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
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"I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them."
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"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."
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"It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next."
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