"I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something."
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"Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other."
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"I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better."
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"I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive."
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"You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones."
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"It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad."
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"...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness."
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"Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time."
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"It's hard to tell people who they should hang out with and who they shouldn't, especially if they aren't ready to hear that. You have to let your friends make their own mistakes sometimes. You can't protect them from everything, or else they'll never learn"
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"I was young, and I think your mistakes sort of mold you. It was important for me to make that one. After that, I definitely made it a point to not let others get in the way of what I wanted to do. Whether it's a relationship or your family or friends, the people close to you should encourage you to work towards your dreams. That was an important lesson for me to learn."
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"Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious."
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"....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healthy who wants? The very word want suggests a lack, an impoverishment, and that is what desire is: an impoverishment of the brain, a flaw, a mistake."
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"There's a place for everything and everyone, you know. That is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people have a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it will clog and clot, and rot and fester."
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"Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow."
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"I now consider the money I put into my pension to have been a mistake."
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"When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture."
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"Nature compensates for its mistakes."
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"The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner."
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"The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken."
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"I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President."
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