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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

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Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that. ↗

— Kevin Costner

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The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world. ↗

— Ozzy Osbourne

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By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

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I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless. ↗

— Philip Green

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By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers. ↗

— Donald Cram

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