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• Is it strange for me to say that if I were to die today, there’s not a thing I would change? I’ve lived well. Maybe I have made mistakes and been through my fair share of pain but all in all, it’s been okay. I’ve lived well.

  Jhene Aiko

  Pain, Today, Strange

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• My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Girlfriend, Jobs, Parent

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• We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.

  James Lovelock

  Taken, Animal, Intelligent

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• Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

  Ken Livingstone

  Done, Should, Bigs

  "Ken Livingstone: 'It's an autobiography, not porn'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• I've made a couple of mistakes I'd like to do over.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Couple

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• The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

  Bill Crawford

  Looks, Blame, Only Time

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• Mistakes are just 'mis-takes,' or an action that we took that missed.

  Bill Crawford

  Action

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• I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that...they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity.

  Haile Selassie

  Men, Ideas, Deities

  "Transform Your World Through the Powers of Your Mind" by Jawara D. King, (p. 295), 2009.

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• If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union... it would be a big mistake.

  Meles Zenawi

  Order, Would Be, Development

  "Western world cannot impose democracy in Africa: Ethiopian PM". AFP, January 25, 2008.

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• I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress for fuel.... to me, stress is just another bad drug that I don't want to do.

  Jerry Stahl

  Stress, Dirty, Thinking

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• The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his body; obviously he would not pay solicitous homage to a clod of clay. A human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Men, Reflection, Cells

  Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.472, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

  Tina Brown

  Psychics, Punishment, Weakness

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• Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not become different, everything will be repeated again, all foolish blunders, all silly mistakes, all loss of time and opportunity - everything will be repeated with the exception of the chance you had this time, because chance never comes in the same form.You will have to look for your chance next time. And in order to do this, you will have to remember many things, and how will you remember then if you do not remember anything now?

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Silly, Loss, Opportunity

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• I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

  Dick Schaap

  Writing, Thinking, Adjectives

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• You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.

  Anne Lamott

  Making Mistakes, Who You Are

  "Becoming the Person You Were Meant to Be: Where to Start" by Anne Lamott, www.oprah.com.

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• I like people admitting they were complete stupid horses' asses. I know I'll perform better if I rub my nose in my mistakes. This is a wonderful trick to learn.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, Stupid, People

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• If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

  Jacques-Louis David

  Justice, Taste, Glory

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• It’s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and every thought you have in your head grows in front of you without any mistakes; no rubbing out, starting again and getting frustrated. It’s like being in a trance - it’s a fluid - and you almost don’t remember doing the picture. Drawing is an escape from all the unnecessary things in life that get in the way of being free.

  Jamie Hewlett

  Moving, Hands, Things In Life

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• It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Doe, May

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• They're my mistakes. ... I didn't pick the right guys.

  Matt Millen

  Guy, Picks, My Mistakes

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• For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.

  Neville Goddard

  Men, Giving, Firsts

  Neville Goddard (2005). “At Your Command”, p.50, Morgan James Publishing

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• There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to know the contents of our own minds without resort to observation or evidence. It is a mistake, I shall urge, to suppose that these questions can be collapsed into two, or taken into isolation.

  Donald Davidson

  Taken, Two, Mind

  Donald Davidson (2001). “Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective: Philosophical Essays”, p.208, Clarendon Press

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• It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

  Neil Postman

  Technology, Blessing, Innovation

  Neil Postman (2011). “Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology”, p.14, Vintage

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• Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our childrens lives.

  Kenny Guinn

  Teacher, Parent, Important

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• We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains.

  Dan Ariely

  Decision, Brain, Systematic

  "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions". Book by Dan Ariely, February 19, 2008.

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