"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."
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"People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If theres patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights."
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"Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?"
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"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."
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"All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride."
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"You have made some mistakes and you may not be where you want to be, but that has nothing to do with your future."
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"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
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"Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others."
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"Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up."
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"One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you."
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"Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many."
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"Your worst mistakes is actually your best advice."
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"If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself."
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"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."
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"How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today."
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"My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast Letting losses run is the most serious mistake made by most investors."
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"Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences."
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"But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost."
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"Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it."
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"I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake."
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