"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend."

Christie, Agatha on friends and friendship
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"A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something."

Unknown, Source on mistakes   

"More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them."

Smith, Harold J. on mistakes
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"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake..."

Boswell, Nelson on mistakes
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"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness."

Wollstonecraft, Mary on evil
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"Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes."

Antisthenes on enemies
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"Give up control even if it means the employees have to make some mistakes."

Flores, Frank on delegation
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"Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature
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"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."

Battista, Orlando A. on mistakes
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"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them."

Cavour, Camillo Benso Conte Di on trust
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"Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny."

Hobbes, John Oliver on destiny
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"If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

Bankhead, Tallulah on mistakes
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"Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on murder   

"Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner."

Wilde, Oscar on murder
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"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."

Jones, Franklin P. on experience   

"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."

Link, Henry C. on mistakes
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"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good."

Hubbard, Elbert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door."

Mascotte, John P. on criticism   

"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous."

Heard, Jane on adaptability
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"It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake."

Mencken, H. L. on belief
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"Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else."

Cavalier, Nashua on job   

"In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes."

Ruskin, John on pride   

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"It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas."

Unknown, Source on mistakes   

"It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better."

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill on mistakes
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"Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice."

Mayo, William James on mistakes
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"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."

Waitley, Denis on mistakes
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"Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake."

Hoffer, Eric on humankind   

"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

Wooden, John on mistakes
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"Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice."

Morita, Akio on mistakes
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"I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one."

Bennett, James Gordon on mistakes
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."

Confucius on failure
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"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."

Plutarch on failure
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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."

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic) on failure   

"I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances."

Sculley, John on mistakes   

"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones."

Unknown, Source on mistakes   

"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom."

Therous, Phyllis on mistakes
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"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything"

Roosevelt, Theodore on mistakes
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"A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything."

Magazine, Bernard on mistakes
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"I made a wrong mistake"

Berra, Yogi on mistakes
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"Don't mistake activity for achievement."

Wooden, John on achievement
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