"There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once."
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"Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn't do, companies we didn't buy."
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"...in terms of business mistakes that I've seen over a long lifetime, I would say that trying to minimize taxes too much is one of the great standard causes of really dumb mistakes. I see terrible mistakes from people being overly motivated by tax considerations. Warren and I personally don't drill oil wells. We pay our taxes. And we've done pretty well, so far. Anytime somebody offers you a tax shelter from here on in life, my advice would be don't buy it."
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"After nearly making a terrible mistake not buying See's, we've made this mistake many times. We are apparently slow learners. These opportunity costs don't show up on financial statements, but have cost us many billions."
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"Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame."
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"If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them."
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"The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change."
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"Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do."
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"The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them."
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"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."
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"You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t."
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"It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery."
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"To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake"
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"My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times."
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"I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self."
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"The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes."
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"The real hero is always a hero by mistake."
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"The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line."
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"Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages."
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"We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings."
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