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Mistake Quotes
"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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"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 don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake."
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"We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes."
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"Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!"
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"A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once."
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"If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right."
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"I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again."
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"Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?"
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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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"When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering."
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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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"I made a big mistake, and I didn't use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with a life less lived. I used it to be okay with mediocrity and the mundane. And I didn't make myself any better because of it.And that's not okay with me."
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"Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C."
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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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"Find fault with thyself rather than with others."
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"When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens."
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"When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes."
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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
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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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"Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement."
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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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"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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"Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there."
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"I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress."
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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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"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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"Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.O hateful error, Melancholy's child,Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of menThe things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,But kill'st the mother that engendered thee."
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"I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them."
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"Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake."
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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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"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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