"The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings."
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"You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past."
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"The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy."
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"There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them."
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"In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much."
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"How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them."
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"Nowadays, we are confronted by a huge gap between rich and poor. This is not only morally wrong, but practically a mistake. It leads to the rich living in anxiety and the poor living in frustration, which has the potential to lead to more violence. We have to work to reduce this gap. It's truly unfair that some people should have so much while others go hungry."
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"The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism."
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"Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: “I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do."
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"We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. King Hussein Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. - Thomas Jefferson We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition."
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"[To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to 9/11:] We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes."
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"If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough."
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"Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes. I'm going to look stupid. I'm going to say things I want to retract. I'm going to sing notes I wish I could have back, there's just no getting around the stumble, but if you stumble enough times you're going to fall off the edge and have no choice but to freakin' fly."
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"They [people] mistake fashion for style."
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"Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers."
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"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."
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"When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer."
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"I made mistakes, I made some bread. I even made a way for them to get ahead."
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"Are we acting like a couple? I'm just trying to get it straight. Cause I'm over here convinced that it's too early for mistakes."
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"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made."
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