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• Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Eight, Chinese

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• Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

  Ellen Goodman

  Sometimes, Made, Crucial

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• When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.

  Hugh Prather

  Words Of Wisdom, Deep Thought, Listening

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.38, Bantam

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• By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Moving

  "Two Secrets To A Better You' by Jack Canfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2009.

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• The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Iraq, Historical

  "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", January 11, 2007.

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• I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country's peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In time of "clear and present danger," the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public's need for national security.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, War, Yield

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• I don't fear jail because I know I'm not guilty. I know I did nothing wrong. I did nothing criminal and I also believe my God will get me through this.

  Kenneth Lay

  Believe, Jail, Criminals

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• Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition.

  Charlie Munger

  Errors, Trying, Cognition

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• Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don't want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me.

  Greg Norman

  Golf, Work Out, Trying

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• It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Military, Thinking

  Television interview, 1987.

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• The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Strength, Spiritual

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Errors, Long, Add

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2114, Delphi Classics

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• Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Humorous, Errors, Gambling

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• That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Humorous, Ideas

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1770)

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• The only time you truly make a mistake is when you commit a "mis-take," that is, you "miss-taking" the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson from your seemingly malfunctional experience.

  Dean Frazer

  Opportunity, Missing, Opportunities To Learn

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• The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Hero, Prudent, Conquer

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• Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road, turn around.

  Edgar Cayce

  Sorry, Turns, Feels

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• A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser.

  Emmet Fox

  Morning, Men, Bigger Better

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• The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Doctors, Air

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• It would hurt. But we'll dust ourselves off and we'll come back.

  Gerry Schwartz

  Hurt, Dust, Making Mistakes

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• Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.

  Gordon Moore

  Errors, Entrepreneur, Trial And Error

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• If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.

  Howard Hughes

  Design, Pay, Made

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• The biggest mistake was that I didn't hire all the right people. I should have done better reference checks. I should have defined the roles in a much more professional manner. I hired people who just couldn't do the job.

  Lillian Vernon

  Jobs, Should Have, People

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• I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works.

  Martha Stewart

  Good Life, Return, Good Work

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• Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

  Michael Dell

  Littles, Obstacles, Acknowledge

  Michel Dell's commemencement speech at the University of Texas at Austin, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 2003.

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