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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breat...

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Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must...

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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a...

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..either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a doll...

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Henry HazlittEconomics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.

I neglected my health, and I was reluctant to have medical check-ups. It was a fundamental mistake f...

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A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a...

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Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abort...

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Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a t...

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In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one ...

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There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonn...

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Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale u...

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I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of ...

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I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-""The world does not forgive mistakes so qui...

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I brug you two [gifts] . . . I gots the little here in my pockie.' He dug one hand deep into his poc...

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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy...

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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish t...

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He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, wil...

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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of...

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It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music...

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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing t...

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Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Whic...

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Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake:...

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Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I a...

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There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master -...

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A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

One makes mistakes that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding...

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But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also lear...

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My greatest mistake is that my dreams were too small.

I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave...

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Mrs Guinea answered my letter and invited me to lunch at her home. That was where I saw my first fin...

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I am certain one ought to be allowed to undo what one has done so ignorantly ! I daresay it happens ...

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The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or m...

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Cynthia had been on friendly terms with an eccentric librarian called Porlock who in the last years ...

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Vladimir NabokovAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mist...

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Drama is based on the Mistake.

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W. H. AudenThe Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to su...

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Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman's Camden Conversations

I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the sh...

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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a tim...

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It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear frien...

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The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enor...

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Al AlvarezThe Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lesson...

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February 13, 1936I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary....

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given ...

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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that y...

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Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to sui...

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I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken p...

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The...

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should sta...

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Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admi...

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There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. Yo...

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Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic researc...

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I’m relieved to seethat even brilliant physicists make mistakes.”Kohler looked over. “What do you me...

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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every ne...

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Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and pass...

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Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a typ...

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underes...

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I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already...

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