"Even a mistake is better than nothing."
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"[Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner."
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"In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake."
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"Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality."
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"This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake -- the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism -- how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings."
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"Make no mistake: Homosexuals' human right must be protected. It is bigoted to discriminate against people based on their sexual orientation or preferences just as it is to discriminate based on race or religion. Nonetheless there is no justification to promote this lifestyle and pretend that it is normal."
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"Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake."
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"Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom."
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"He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same."
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"Human life must be some form of mistake."
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"The mistake that the Bush administration should admit to is not so much that they made the wrong choices. They made the right analysis; they made the right choices. But what they did wrong was the execution of those choices. That was wrong."
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"To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes."
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"I don't want to hold out false hopes that the - by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a couple months because they wouldn't, Charlie. I mean, and it's a big mistake to try and mislead people."
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"There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety."
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"All I ever do is learn from my mistakes so I don't make the same ones again. Then I make new ones."
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"That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again!"
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"It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish."
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"Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed."
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"When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake."
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"A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man."
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