"I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes."
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"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."
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"The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me."
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"Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination."
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"Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!"
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"The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist."
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"The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned."
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"I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that...they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity."
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"A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you."
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"I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain."
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"It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist."
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"You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes."
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"I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be."
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"When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind."
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"Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker."
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"The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its strength and hold it for the favorable moment, which has already come and gone several times. Since the treaties of Vienna, our frontiers have been ill-designed for a healthy body politic. Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided - that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood (Eisen und Blut)."
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"Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon."
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"You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing."
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"From error to error one discovers the entire truth."
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"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."
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