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• The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it beginning with page 45 [Hayek provided historical background up to page 45; after that came his theoretical model], and yet it remains a book of some interest, which is likely to leave its mark on the mind of the reader. It is an extraordinary example of how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in bedlam.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Book, Historical, Mind

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: The general theory and after: pt. 1, Preparation”

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• I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.

  Kenneth Lay

  Responsibility, Criminals, Good And Bad

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• Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it, and above.

  Gia Carangi

  Pain, Life And Death, Heaven

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

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• People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

  Mike Tyson

  People, Boxing, Guy

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• Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

  George Foreman

  People, Trying, Failing

  George Foreman (2010). “Knockout Entrepreneur: My Ten-Count Strategy for Winning at Business”, p.80, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its hum an rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you ? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made.

  Malcolm X

  Wall, Teenager, Fighting

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• Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should never fall out with each other just because we believe in different methods, or tactics, or strategy. We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Fall, Fighting

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• It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Serious, Taciturn

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• The successful leader must be willing
  to assume responsibility for the mistakes
  and the shortcomings of his followers.

  Napoleon Hill

  Responsibility, Successful, Leader

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.94, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.

  Chuck Mangione

  Beautiful, Passion, Perfection

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• The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting

  Brian De Palma

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began.
  Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.

  Clarice Lispector

  Simplicity, Effort, Molecules

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• Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Media, Editors, Issues

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• Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.

  Len Deighton

  Silly, Creative, Activity

  LEN DEIGHTON (1967). “AN EXPENSIVE PLACE TO DIE”

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• But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.

  Margery Allingham

  Fall, Views, Two

  Margery Allingham (2015). “Dancers in Mourning”, p.31, Ipso Books

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• This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Outlook On Life, People, Doe

  Patricia Highsmith (2008). “The Talented Mr. Ripley”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake.

  Pol Pot

  Enemy, Innocent, Spares

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• There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people - by us and also by the enemy - but the other side, as I told you, is that without our struggle there would be no Cambodia right now.

  Pol Pot

  Struggle, People, Enemy

  "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

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• Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable.

  Gorgias

  Men, Errors, Cities

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• In The Bob Hope Golf Classic (LWT) the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.

  Clive James

  Golf, Men, Order

  Clive James (2017). “Clive James On Television”, p.503, Pan Macmillan

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• When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.

  Frank Herbert

  Fighting, Men, Giving

  Frank Herbert (2012). “Dune: The Gateway Collection”, p.258, Hachette UK

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• The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structures tend to be taken over by people who are corruptible. I don't think that the old saw about 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' is accurate: I think power attracts the corruptible.

  Frank Herbert

  Taken, Thinking, Numbers

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• There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.

  Larry Niven

  Character, Belief, Opinion

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• I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197

  Daniel Libeskind

  Believe, Ideas, Space

  Daniel Libeskind (1995). “Traces of the Unborn”, University of Michigan College of

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• The main thing is to be yourself and not allow people to disturb you to be different, because they want you to be different. You gotta be yourself. Many times you throw a mistake due to your own personality or your own character or from interference that you get along the way then you learn, and the main thing is to learn from your mistakes and get better.

  Ayrton Senna

  Being Yourself, Character, People

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