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"We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done...[But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world."
"If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement."
"In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once."
"If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it."
"I've learned about employee relations; I've learned about following your instinct. One of the biggest mistakes you can follow is not following your instincts, you know? A lot of times your instincts will tell you what to do if you have a good one. Now, if your instincts are terrible, then you ask for advice. But if you have good instincts, you definitely have to follow them, or else you regret them."
"He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others."
"I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret it - I'm worse than Mariah Carey, and the hot milk rider is completely non-negotiable."
"There were a million What Ifs that could have stopped the whole thing. A million things I wished I'd done differently. But in the end, I was left with what actually happened. With my mistakes and his."
"Even if you have done no wrong, no mistake in the last 50 years, remember the mistake you did 51 years ago and repent for it and become humble."
"There's room for role models who make mistakes."
"There is a tendency for things to right themselves."
"Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness."
"My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation."
"To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism."
"Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself."
"It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence."
"I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind."
"Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry whether it is right. It is sufficient that another is growing great in his own eyes at our expense, and assumes authority over us without our permission; for many would contentedly suffer the consequences of their own mistakes, rather than the insolence of him who triumphs as their deliverer."
"That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one."
"Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake."
