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• If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

  Frank Wilczek

  Inspirational, Work, Mistake

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• Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived.

  John le Carre

  Children, Mistake, Home

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• I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mistake, Thinking, Weakness

  Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter (2012). “The Long Earth: (Long Earth 1)”, p.110, Random House

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• Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mistake, Lying, Moving

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.298, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you.

  Charlaine Harris

  Mistake, Long, Perfect

  "Deadlocked". Book by Charlaine Harris, May 1, 2012.

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• You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?

  Amy Chua

  Mistake, What If, Made

  "TalkAsia" with Sara Sidner, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2012.

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• I've made mistakes. More than my share. Hopefully, I've learned from them, but can't guarentee anything. There's only one thing I can promise. I'm taking this to the end." -Bobby Pendragon

  D. J. MacHale

  Mistake, Promise, I've Learned

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• That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Eye, Men

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

  Jacques Plante

  Jobs, Mistake, Hockey

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• First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Mistake, Faithful

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Running, Mistake, Party

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• I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.

  Dwyane Wade

  Basketball, Mistake, Hands

  "Dwyane Wade Talks New Book, ‘A Father First,’ And What He Plans To Teach His Sons About Women" By Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, 'I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change.' Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so.

  Joss Whedon

  Mistake, Thinking, Needs

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• You can't lay back and wait for somebody else to do it. And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem.

  Chris Christie

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  "Huntsman yet to live up to hype - Michele Bachmann ties Romney in first big Iowa poll - Officially announces her candidacy tomorrow - Maureen Dowd labels Obama 'Bi,' for being on all sides" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. June 26, 2011.

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• Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.

  Rowan Williams

  Mistake, Cutting, Thinking

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• Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Mistake, Moving, Perfect

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• It was just a bad game. On the first goal, I just made a mistake and got scored on and it just snowballed from there. It happens sometimes. You don't want it, but it's the reality. I just have to refocus.

  Tomas Vokoun

  Mistake, Reality, Games

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• There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, Mistake, Light

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

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• "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

  Mary Pickford

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Encouragement

  "Why Not Try God?". "St. Petersburg Times" Newspaper, sect. 2, (p. 3), January 25, 1936.

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• If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.

  Jim Thompson

  Mistake, People, Want

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mistake, Reality, Thinking

  "'Eat, Pray, Love' author tackles marriage". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2010.

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• I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn't care.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Mistake, Thinking, Records

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• I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.

  Alan Greenspan

  Mistake, Self, Made

  " Greenspan - I was wrong about the economy. Sort of" by Andrew Clark and Jill Treanor, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2008.

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• Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.

  Janet Frame

  Mistake, Paper, Toilets

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• What we should have done a long time ago was stand up - players, ownership, everybody - and said: 'We made a mistake.'

  Jason Giambi

  Mistake, Player, Should Have

  "Giambi: Baseball's apology needed over steroid issue". usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 23, 2007.

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