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• I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.

  Fred Couples

  Home, Age, Married

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• I've spent my life making blunders.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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• I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.

  George Will

  Illinois, Chicago, Fans

  "Baseball". Documentary, History, Sport, 1994–2010.

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• If you've made a mistake, if you've made a blunder, admit it to yourself, and then go to the people affected by it and admit it to them, and tell them you're sorry. Full-heartedly and openly. The fact of the matter is, that people who do that make an enormous impression. It's the right thing to do. It's the moral thing to do.

  Brit Hume

  Sorry, Mistake, People

  "Can Carly Fiorina ride a 'defeat Clinton' strategy to the GOP nomination? Plus, Gen. Michael Hayden makes case for NSA terror tools". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 31, 2015.

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• If I was to see any of my films now I would feel, oh god you know it's awful I could do that so much better now. Look at all the terrible things I did and all the mistakes and all the compromises and all the blunders I made, and it would be such a terrible experience for me to see them. So it's better that I put it out and move on to the next thing and make it history as quickly as possible.

  Woody Allen

  Mistake, Moving, Would Be

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change.

  Learned Hand

  Thinking, Long, Justice

  "Parke, Davis & Co. v. H. K. Mulford Co". Judicial opinion, 1911.

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• There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.

  Camille Paglia

  Historical, Ignorant, Judgment

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer . Thus two by two we wrangle and blunder about the earth, And that body we share we may not spare; but the Gods have need of mirth.

  James Branch Cabell

  Two, Perfection, Needs

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.6, eBookIt.com

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• Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better. Progress through irrational and astounding blunders, whose outrageousness bedwarfed the wildest cliches of romance, was what Kennaston found everywhere. All this, then, also was foreplanned, just as all happenings at Storisende had been, in his puny romance; and the puppets, here to, moved as they thought of their own volition, but really in order to serve a denouement in which many of them had not any personal part or interest...

  James Branch Cabell

  Race, Order, Romance

  "The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions". Book by James Branch Cabell, 1917.

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• A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work. Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude; and Phocion, you know, always suspected himself of some blunder when he was attended with the applauses of the populace.

  David Hume

  Wise, Men, Stronger

  David Hume, J. Y. T. Greig (2011). “The Letters of David Hume: 1727-1765”, p.305, Oxford University Press, USA

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• An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

  Aristophanes

  Law, Athens, Idiot

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• I do not believe indeed, I deem it a comic blunder to believe that the exercise of reason is sufficient to explain our condition and where necessary to remedy it, but I do believe that the exercise of reason is at all times necessary.

  Peter Medawar

  Believe, Exercise, Reason

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Charity, Boast

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.353, Рипол Классик

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• Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Mistake, Troops

  Dwight D. Eisenhower (1948). “Crusade in Europe”

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• If you are strong you can take a punch and not flinch, but if you have a sore spot, a nudge on that sore spot will make you scream. Muslims committed the huge blunder of revealing their vulnerability. Now the world knows what hurts them. When you find your opponent's weak spot, it is exactly where you want to hit him.

  Ali Sina

  Hurt, Strong, Want

  Source: myislam.dk

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• It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, India, Would Be

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• Man always made, and still makes, grotesque blunders in selecting and measuring forces, taken at random from the heap, but he never made a mistake in the value he set on the whole, which he symbolized as unity and worshipped as God. To this day, his attitude towards it has never changed, though science can no longer give to force a name.

  Henry Adams

  God, Attitude, Mistake

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1685, Open Road Media

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• George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

  E. C. Bentley

  Wonder, Grotesque, Ought

  'More Biography' (1929) 'George the Third'

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• While the body is young and fine, the soul blunders, but as the body grows old it attains its highest power. Again, every good soul uses mind; but no body can produce mind: for how should that which is without mind produce mind? Again, while the soul uses the body as an instrument, it is not in it; just as the engineer is not in his engines (although many engines move without being touched by any one).

  Sallust

  Moving, Soul, Mind

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• What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

  Jonathan Swift

  Degrees, Bulls, Mouths

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “The drapier's letters (cont.) Miscellaneous tracts upon Irish affairs. Sermons”, p.148

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• Two of the biggest conversational blunders you can make are saying something when you should stay silent, and staying silent when you should say something.

  Mardy Grothe

  Two, Silent, Should

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• Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

  Mark McCormack

  Fewer

  Mark H. McCormack (2016). “What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School”, p.25, Profile Books

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• Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame.

  William Ernest Henley

  Thinking, Life Is, Shame

  William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

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• In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more costly, but we cannot yet calculate the cost of teaching Iran and others, by our role in the casual overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi, the peril of not having nuclear weapons.

  George Will

  Teaching, Iran, Iraq

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• In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.

  Ricardo Sanchez

  Senior, Military, Men

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