"If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time."
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"I was brought up with the sense that I was absolutely no different from my brothers. I went to college thinking I was absolutely no different from the men in college. But that's not true. I'm fundamentally different. The problem was not being able to understand difference and equality at the same time. It's something that we can't seem to comprehend. You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. It's a mistake."
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"It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one."
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"Make no mistake, Madonna is always in control of the image she wants you to see."
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"It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them."
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"We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India."
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"If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken."
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"People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any."
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"Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence."
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"A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition."
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"The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can be won with good deeds; but the Tao is beyond all value, and no one can achieve it. Thus, when a new leader is chosen, don't offer to help him with your wealth or your expertise. Offer instead to teach him about the Tao. Why did the ancient Masters esteem the Tao? Because, being one with the Tao, when you seek, you find; and when you make a mistake, you are forgiven. That is why everybody loves it."
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"There is no greater mistake than to make light of an enemy By making light of an enemy many a kingdom has been lost."
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"Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it's just an old fashioned word for this world we live in, as imagined surrounded by the Ocean."
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"I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career."
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"I've been around a lot longer than most rappers stay around. So I don't feel like, I haven't made too many career mistakes."
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"I'm moved by us, our quirks and mistakes."
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"I'm moved by us, our quirks and mistakes. I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of a dress. I'm one of those people who sees Frank Zappa in a cup of coffee, or elephants wrestling in clouds. But also, conscious creation of all kinds moves me. And a divinely expressed performance in any genre sets me completely on fire."
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"Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done."
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"The biggest mistake in helping undeserved kids is not raising the bar high enough. Children will believe if you believe in them."
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"There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are."
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