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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. ↗

— Aristotle

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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. ↗

— Orlando A. Battista

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I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong. ↗

— Chris Bell

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Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class. ↗

— Clive Bell

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My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. ↗

— Bono

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One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes. ↗

— Richard Branson

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As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes. ↗

— Harry Browne

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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas. ↗

— Leo Burnett

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