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Honore de Balzac Novelist
Mistake

"Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge."

Mistake Success Ambition
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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist
Mistake

"Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy."

Mistake Humility Hypocrisy
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D. A. Carson Theologian
Mistake

"I can say that it's 10 miles from my home to Trinity, when in fact that's not quite right, it's off by about 10%, but nobody would say that I'm telling a lie or making a mistake when I rounded off because that's the way we speak and rounded off terms regularly."

Home Lying Mistake
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Mistake

"I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life."

People Mistake Humanity
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Mistake

"Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books."

Mean Book Mistake
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Mistake

"I was wondering — I mean — could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked to come here. You would not have called me unless I had been calling you."

Mean Mistake Calling
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Barack Obama Politician
Mistake

"My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect."

Jobs Mistake Perfect
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Barack Obama Politician
Mistake

"But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality."

Believe Mistake Inspiring
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Barack Obama Politician
Mistake

"[About his marijuana use] I did. It's not something that I'm proud of. It was a mistake as a young man, but you know? I mean not going to -- I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point."

Mean Mistake Marijuana
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Barack Obama Politician
Mistake

"We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because the ordinary American citizen may not know whether or not this person is illegal or not. But, you know, the notion that we're going to criminalize priests, for example, or doctors who are providing services to individuals, and throw them in jail for doing what their calling asks them to do, which is to provide help and service to people in need, I think that is a mistake. I think that's out of America's character."

Thinking Character Mistake
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Barack Obama Politician
Mistake

"We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth."

Eye Mistake Blessed
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Barack Obama Politician
Mistake

"Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country."

Country Mistake Military
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Barack Obama Politician
Mistake

"America is the greatest country on Earth. But because of some of the mistakes that have been made, we, I think, are going to have a lot of work to do in the next administration to restore that sense that America is that shining beacon on a hill."

Thinking Country Mistake
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Barack Obama Politician
Mistake

"I know there are problems that I say to myself, If maybe I was a little more gifted I might have been able to solve. But that's not because I believe what I did was a mistake. It's that maybe it required the talents of a Lincoln."

Believe Littles Mistake
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Barack Obama Politician
Mistake

"There are times where I've made mistakes or our administration hasn't always aligned ourselves with the values we need to align ourselves with. It's a work of constant improvement."

Needs Mistake Administration
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Barack Obama Politician
Mistake

"I face the world as it is and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake, evil does exist in the world."

People Mistake Evil
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