"Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error."
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"There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth."
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"It is to be emphasized that no matter how many [amplitude] arrows we draw, add, or multiply, our objective is to calculate a single final arrow for the event . Mistakes are often made by physics students at first because they do not keep this important point in mind. They work for so long analyzing events involving a single photon that they begin to think that the arrow is somehow associated with the photon [rather than with the event]."
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"Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better"
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"Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks. That's because, if you learn something new, you are then required to make mistakes in order to fully understand what you have learned."
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"Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited."
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"It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it."
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"You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly."
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"Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right."
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"I just like stories about redemption about getting a second chance at life, I think everyone in the world has a few major mistakes they've made in there lives and if they could just go back and correct it... but, unfortunately they don't get a chance usually it's almost impossible."
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"I have made a lot of career mistakes, a lot and I have made a lot of personal ones too!"
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"Facing this stuff, in real life is not like school, in school, if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there...when your a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes...you don't know what that's like."
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"You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you."
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"You're 30: You know stuff now. Your 20s were for 'ducking up,' as my auto-correct would say, and learning from those mistakes. (For instance, never again will I convince myself that sleep is for sissies and go straight from a party to the airport. You will not 'sleep on the plane'; you'll vomit in the security line. Go to bed.)"
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"I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time."
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"I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race."
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"Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people."
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"When you make a mistake, be excited! Analyze what happened, and learn from it."
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"Your mistake does not define who you are...you are your possibilities."
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"The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers."
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