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

— B. F. Skinner

#best #circumstances #failure #may #mistake

Frankly, I've got to admit that I'm not perfect and have made some mistakes as some of the colourful stories about me reveal. ↗

— Peter Slipper

#admit #frankly #got #i #made

Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#dumb #everything #fault #guess #hadn

I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#bunch #capacity #character #classic #decisions

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#about #children #desire #discrimination #excite

But it was also the best mistake I've ever made, because what it did was hopefully allow a whole new generation to make up their own minds about Scientology and for that I make no apology. ↗

— John Sweeney

#allow #also #apology #because #best

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#mistake #own #themselves #very #will

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#folly #kingdom #london #many #mistake

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#first #good #impulses #mistrust #nearly

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