"I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better."
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"Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships."
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"Making mistakes is a way of taking action."
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"Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity."
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"We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that’s who we are. We mistake the openness of our being—the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment—for a solid, irrefutable self. Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer."
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"No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority either from the circumstance of its novelty or its antiquity, that it should be judged excellent, not because it is reasonable or true, but because no person has ever thought of it before, or because it has been thought of from the beginning of time."
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"All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth."
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"..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary."
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"You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls."
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"We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come."
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"So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself."
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"Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration."
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"Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live.""
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"It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking."
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"Never mistake motive for action."
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"It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a corresponding development of morality."
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"The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods."
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"There are many instances in science, where those closest to the intricacies of the subject have a more highly developed sense of its intractability than those at some remove. On the other hand, those at too great a distance may, I am well aware, mistake ignorance for perspective."
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"Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts."
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"The biggest mistake coaches make is taking borderline cases and trying to save them. I'm not talking about grades now, I'm talking about character. I want to know before a boy enrolls about his home life, and what his parents want him to be."
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