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• Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus.

  Teresa of Avila

  Mistake, Saint, Atoms

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• To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming over here, is one thing. But to say that the whole of the American prosperity was based on exploiting the indigenous population would be a great mistake.

  Amartya Sen

  Mistake, Men, White Man

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• Senator [Ben] Sanders and I share some very big progressive goals. I've been fighting for universal healthcare for many years, and we're now on the path to achieving it. I don't want us to start over again. I think that would be a great mistake, to once again plunge our country into a contentious debate about whether we should have and what kind of system we should have for healthcare.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Mistake, Fighting

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent us from pursuing the good, the true and the beautiful. But it would be a great mistake to ignore where we have come from in our attempt to determine where we are going.

  Carl Sagan

  Beautiful, Mistake, Humanity

  Carl Sagan (1973). “Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.

  George D. Prentice

  Mistake, Thinking, Order

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• One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children-unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Mistake, Men

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• 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.

  E. M. Forster

  Mistake, Humility, Hypocrisy

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.183, RosettaBooks

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• There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Mistake, Science, Opportunity

  "The New Industrial State". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter XVIII, Section 5, p. 208, 1967.

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• Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.

  David Whyte

  Mistake, Drama, Ifs

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.50, Penguin

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• I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

  Pierre Laval

  War, Mistake, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

  Henry Rollins

  Mistake, Honest, Made

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. August 26, 1998.

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• Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them. And, more than that, and more important than that, make them. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mistake, Important, Be Kind

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• It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving Up, Mistake, Men

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• It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in hope of fulfilling a want by its actual presence in the future. If objects were pleasurable in themselves, then the same dress or food would always please everyone, which is not the case.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mistake, Ideas, Mind

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• I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Mistake, Thinking

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.198, Penguin

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• Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

  Tris Speaker

  Baseball, Mistake, Ruth

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• I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.

  Adeline Knapp

  Mistake, Rain, Water

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• In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

  J. G. Holland

  Mistake, Men, Errors

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 349, 1895.

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• There is a glory in a great mistake.

  Nathalia Crane

  Mistake, Glory

  "Swear By the Night and Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("Imperfection"), 1936.

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• Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mistake, Thinking, Complaining

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.41, Dial Press

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• All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mistake, Struggle, Trying

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• It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Mistake, Slave, Masters

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.4, TAN Books

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• It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

  Winston Churchill

  Hope, Spring, Mistake

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.89, Da Capo Press

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• The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.

  George Crook

  Spiritual, Mistake, Aerospace

  George Crook (1986). “General George Crook: His Autobiography”, p.229, University of Oklahoma Press

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• It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Real, Mistake

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.913, RosettaBooks

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