#mistake

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win. ↗

— George Wald

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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn. ↗

— Earl Warren

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And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

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I'm not perfect. I've made mistakes. I'd do a lot of things different if I could. I'd never, ever, get involved with surrogacy again. It's so weird. ↗

— Mary Beth Whitehead

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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ↗

— Billy Wilder

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If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ↗

— Earl Wilson

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In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

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There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

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It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks. ↗

— John Yoo

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