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Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
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new-day
inspirational
fresh-start
start-over
beginnings
tomorrow
mistake
mistakes
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L.M. Montgomery |
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If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.
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letting-go
change
life
inspirational
growth
mistakes
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Steve Maraboli |
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When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
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life
mistakes
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Paulo Coelho |
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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learning
wisdom
records
experience
mistakes
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Bram Stoker |
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Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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inspirational
mistakes
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L.M. Montgomery |
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It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.
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trust
loves-ones
self-reliance
mistakes
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Jodi Picoult |
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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wisdom
timidity
paradox
mistakes
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Oscar Wilde |
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"Will's voice dropped. "Everyone makes mistakes, Jem." "Yes," said Jem. "You just make more of them than most people." "I --" "You hurt everyone," said Jem. "Everyone whose life you touch." "Not you," Will whispered. "I hurt everyone but you. I never meant to hurt you." Jem put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes. "Will --" "You can't never forgive me," Will said in disbelief, hearing the panic tinging his own voice. "I'd be --" "Alone?" Jem lowered his hand, but he was smiling now, crookedly. "And whose fault is that?"
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loneliness
jem-carstairs
will-herondale
mistakes
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Cassandra Clare |
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We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.
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struggles
motivational
life
inspirational
living-now
self-empowerment
mistakes
regret
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Steve Maraboli |
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Live the Life of Your Dream
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action
being-positive
live
perseverance
inspiration
living
motivation
optimistic
positive-affirmation
positive-life
dreams
positive
positive-thinking
motivational
optimism
life
inspirational
startup
achievement
setbacks
believe-in-yourself
living-life
act
do
self-belief
doing
obstacles
hard-work
start
belief
mistakes
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Roy T. Bennett |
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I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.
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intelligence
self-recognition
mistakes
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J.K. Rowling |
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Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!
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action
destiny
change
empowerment
motivational
success
life
inspirational
mistakes
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Steve Maraboli |
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I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
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pretexts
justification
mistakes
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Rudyard Kipling |
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In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.
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risk
humanity
inspirational
mistakes
school
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Robert T. Kiyosaki |
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It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness.
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courage
inspiration
inspirational-attitude
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
inspire
life-and-living
life-quotes
living
motivation
optimistic
positive-affirmation
positive-life
inspiring
positive
positive-thinking
motivational
life-lessons
optimism
life
inspirational
mistakes
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Roy T. Bennett |
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The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.
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mistakes
regret
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.
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persistence
inspirational
mistakes
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Joyce Meyer |
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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progress
responsibility
erring
mistakes
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Kurt Vonnegut |
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You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
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mistakes
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Ray Bradbury |
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"It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault." "You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."
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lessons
mistakes
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Norton Juster |
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I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart.
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be-yourself
sex
word-junkies
feelings
relationships
beauty
heartbreak
life-lessons
heart
life
love
truth
inspirational
realist
best
heartache
infatuation
sentimental
head
mistakes
lust
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Crystal Woods |
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Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.
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marriage
mistakes
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Jodi Picoult |
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I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity.
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learning
invitation
intervention
mistakes
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.
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mistakes
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Paulo Coelho |
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And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.
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humor
ship
mistakes
fire
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Scott Westerfeld |
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So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
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inspirational
neil-gaiman
mistakes
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Neil Gaiman |
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Beware of speaking too much, for it increases mistakes and engenders boredom.
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inspirational
mistakes
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Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S |
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It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.
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upbringing
mistakes
children
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T.H. White |
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Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away and write down the four worst things you have done to a partner, even if - especially if - your partner doesn't know about them. Don't dress things up, or try to explain them; just write them down, in a list, in the plainest language possible. Finished? Ok, so who's the arsehole now?
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love
mistakes
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Nick Hornby |
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If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.
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mistakes
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Jodi Picoult |
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Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that's best for us.
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story
reading
writing
god
life
nesbit
railway
christian
mistakes
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E. Nesbit |
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Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.
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fathers
trust
heartbreak
love
sansa-stark
george-r-r-martin
game-of-thrones
queen
mistakes
prince
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George R.R. Martin |
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You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you
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motivation
motivational
success
life
inspirational
mistakes
failure
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Maxwell Maltz |
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"But I'm not guilty," said K. "there's been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We're all human beings here, one like the other." "That is true" said the priest "but that is how the guilty speak"
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human
life
human-condition
trial
priest
mistakes
guilty
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Franz Kafka |
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We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.
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understanding
mistakes
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Curtis Sittenfeld |
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If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.
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setbacks
offense
failures
patterns
mistakes
forgetfulness
self-esteem
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Robert Greene |
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"I hope I remember everything," said Toni. "You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes."
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mistakes
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Louis Sachar |
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If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
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living
haunted
mistakes
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.
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love
unperfect
mistakes
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Nicholas Sparks |
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IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.
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success
weakness
mistakes
self-improvement
self-help
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Napoleon Hill |
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It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.
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wise
mistakes
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John C. Maxwell |
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Why couldn't it just not have happened? Why didn't they have time-travel, why couldn't he go back and stop it happening? Ships that could circumnavigate the galaxy in a few years, and count every cell in your body from light-years off, but he wasn't able to go back one miserable day and alter one tiny, stupid, idiotic, shameful decision...
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stupidity
galaxies
jernau-morat-gurgeh
time-travel
mistakes
shame
regret
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Iain M. Banks |
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Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
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life
mistakes
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Neil Gaiman |
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The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history--the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen
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reality
truth
realist
dreamer
mistakes
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Robert Greene |
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How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!
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war
hate
history
fun
books
uncaring
classism
starving
history-repeating-itself
cave
bombs
forgotten
rich
poor
mistakes
ignorance
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Ray Bradbury |
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You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.
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life
mistakes
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Ron Rash |
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Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.
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life
mistakes
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Barbara Kingsolver |
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...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finally catch on that the only transaction that matters is a transfer of useful information from adults who possess it to children who do not, and that catching mistakes is a criminal misuse of time.
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time
captain-dimak
catching-mistakes
misuse-of-time
information
mistakes
teaching
children
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Orson Scott Card |
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Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'And then you kissed her? You shouldn't have done that. I'm sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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love
mistakes
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Elizabeth Peters |
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If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.
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jonh-the-baptist
improvement
mistakes
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Christopher Moore |
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Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!
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lessons
mistakes
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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There is no greater sorrow than thinking back upon a happy time in misery--
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inferno
mistakes
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Dante Alighieri |
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"Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla," said Anne repentantly. "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might."
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mistakes
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L.M. Montgomery |
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"You know," she murmured, "we're all heading straight to hell." "Yes," said Masako, giving her a bleak look. "It's like riding downhill with no brakes." "You mean, there's no way to stop?" "No, you stop all right - when you crash." --
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mistakes
trouble
regret
hell
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Natsuo Kirino |
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After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him [as a career counselor] was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited--long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms--what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true 'calling.
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meaning
work
career-counseling
mistakes
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Alain de Botton |
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"Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called "the lessons of history," but at least we should be able to recognize the issues and perhaps avoid some of the solutions that have failed in the past. And we can take heart in our own dilemma by realizing that other people in other times have survived worse."
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learning
mistakes
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Elizabeth Peters |
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He looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, too, we shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? DO we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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look-alike
mistakes
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.
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loss
life-lessons
life
getting-fired
job-losses
losing-hope
losing-self
employment
careers
learning-from-mistakes
mistake
self-worth
mistakes
failure
human-nature
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Gillian Flynn |
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There are things that once done can't be undone, things that once said can't be unsaid.
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|
present
past
life
reverse
said
the-neighbor
undone
mistakes
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Lisa Gardner |
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No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you.
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life
mistakes
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Tess Gerritsen |
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It's the problem with mistakes, they tend to linger.
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deep-thoughts
thoughtful
mistakes
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Maria V. Snyder |
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And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.
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|
past
life
love
wisedom
mistakes
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Khaled Hosseini |
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l'khT trtkb b`dd trdd l'nfs
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|
mistakes
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Naguib Mahfouz |
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I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.
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lies
love
weakness
mistakes
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Agatha Christie |
d87de50
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You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.
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|
experiences
feelings
memories
difficulty
challenges
forgetting
forgiveness
mistakes
regret
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Lois Lowry |
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You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.
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|
ray-bradbury
mgg
mistakes
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Ray Bradbury |
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Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.
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|
learning
american-civil-war-biography
experience
mistakes
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Shelby Foote |
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America had invented itself. It continued to invent itself as it went along. Sometimes its virtues made it the envy of the world. Sometimes it betrayed the very heart of its ideals. Sometimes the people dispensed with what was difficult or inconvenient to acknowledge. So the good people maintained the illusion of democracy and wrote another hymn to America. They sang loud enough to drown out dissent. They sang loud enough to overpower their own doubts. There were no plaques to commemorate mistakes. But the past didn't forget. History was haunted by the ghosts of buried crimes, which required period exorcisms of truth. Actions had consequences.
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|
history
mistakes
ghosts
democracy
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Libba Bray |
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Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from, the more you wish they'd never happened.
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|
retrospection
mistakes
|
Gregory David Roberts |
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"So why did he do it?" Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistakes. He fell in love."
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romance
love
lola-and-the-boy-next-door
lola-nolan
mistakes
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Stephanie Perkins |
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"I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children". When the review of that book began to appear, I realized that I had made an awful naive mistake. I found that I had written a book which even bankers' daughters could read and weep over and feel good about. I swore to myself that if I ever wrote another book, no one would weep over it; that it would be so hard and deep that they would have to face it without the consolation of tears." --
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goals
mistakes
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Richard Wright |
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"No-one loves another More than he loves whatever
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love
mistakes
vanity
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Fernando Pessoa |
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the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.
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wisdom
perspective
mistakes
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Alexandre Dumas |
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I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.
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mistakes-we-make
mistakes
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Les jeux sont faits. Nous sommes fucked.
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|
mistakes
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Mark Z. Danielewski |
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But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.
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human
leadership
error
disaster
imperfection
hierarchy
follow
mistakes
|
Frank Herbert |
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Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss.
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|
loss
mistakes
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Rebecca Solnit |
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Such a fierce little thing she is, they say, she has no need of comfort. They are wrong in that, I fear. All men need comfort.
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|
feelings
comfort
fierceness
fire-and-blood
mistakes
|
George R.R. Martin |
0509a6d
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I know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.
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|
mistakes
self-help
|
Ray Bradbury |
4c84f90
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Of course, we are drawn to teachers who unconsciously mirror our own psychology. None of us are clean. We all make mistakes. It's the repetition of those mistakes and the refusal to look at them that compound the suffering and assure their continuation.
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suffering
teachers
mistakes
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Natalie Goldberg |
dce2077
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"So why did he do it?" Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistake. He fell in love."
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|
romance
love
lola-and-the-boy-next-door
lola-nolan
mistakes
|
Stephanie Perkins |
80d8074
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she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.
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the-human-condition
mistakes
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
51c47af
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If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.
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|
nature
learning
life
teacher
parenting
mistakes
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Randy Alcorn |
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No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn't, any more than he'd blamed himself when his 1-2-3 triple never ran like it should at least once. It didn't pay to second-guess every one of life's decisions, to pretend to wisdom about the past from the safety of the present, the way so many people did when they got older. As if, given a second chance to live their lives, they'd be smarter. Sully didn't know too many people who got noticeably smarter over the course of a lifetime. Some made fewer mistakes, but in Sully's opinion that was because they couldn't go quite so fast. They had less energy, no more virtue; fewer opportunities to screw up, not more wisdom. It was Sully's policy to stick by his mistakes....
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wisdom
mistakes
regrets
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Richard Russo |
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The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we we make mistakes; we say too much where we should have said nothing; we do not speak where a word might have made all the difference. If we are, we will make terrible errors. But we still have to have the courage to struggle on, trusting in our own points of reference to show us the way.
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existence
courage
challenges
speaking
teachers
mistakes
teaching
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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"This book consists not only of my stories of mistakes, rather it's all our stories of mistakes and heart aches. It's the plight of all of us who were rebelling, and kicking against the social messes we found ourselves in. Yet there are so many others who are not alive today, and I feel obligated in not allowing the lessons of their mistakes to lie in the grave with them. It was the United States Senator, Al Franken, who stated, "Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from." I'm revealing all of those mistakes and more, sadly a lot of them are fatal. In an attempt to have these real life lessons obtained in blood, prevent the blood-shedding of so many others. These stories are ones that young people can understand and identify with. While at the same time empowering them, to make better decisions about their choice of friends, the proper use of their time and how one wrong move can be fatal. I guess the major question that we all have to ask ourselves at the end of the day would be: how could I and so many others have been prevented from becoming monsters? You be the judge. I now extend my hand to you, and personally invite you to take a journey with me into the heartlands of innocence to menacing, from a youngster to a monster, and the making of a predator. I will safely walk you down the deserted and darkened street corners which were once my world of crime, gang violence and senseless murders. It's a different world unto itself, one which could only be observed up close by invitation only. Together we will learn the motivation behind hard-core gangsters, and explore the minds of cold-blooded murderers. You will discover the way they think about their own lives, and why they are so remorseless about the taking of another's life. So, if you will, please journey with me as we discover together how the fight of our lives were wrapped up in our fathers."
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darkness
life-lessons
anti-social-behaviors
bloodshed
cold-blooded
deserted
die-hard-gangsters
generation-x
inner-city
menacing
remorseless
senseless-murders
under-ground-world
rebelling
social-ills
harden-criminals
at-risk-youth
crime-prevention
social-science
fatherhood
friendships
mistakes
choices
monsters
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Drexel Deal |
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I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remember best of all, though, was the sudden certainty that the gods were with me, that they would fight for me, that my sword would be their sword. 'We're going to win,' I told my son. I felt as if Odin or Thor had touched me. I had never felt more alive and never felt more certain. I knew there would be no more mistakes and that this was no dream. I had come to Bebbanburg and Bebbanburg would be mine.
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thor
best
bebbanburg
frowning
puzzlement
touched
were
mine
odin
certainty
laughing
me
gods
son
moment
mistakes
remember
sudden
fight
swords
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Bernard Cornwell |
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When I consider my life objectively, it does not seem particularly happy. Yet I cannot really call it unhappy, despite all my mistakes. After all, it is quite foolish to talk about happiness and unhappiness, for it seems to me that I would not exchange the unhappiest days of my life for all the happy ones.
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unhappiness
happiness
hermann-hesse
happiness-quotes
mistakes
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Hermann Hesse |
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Do you ever wonder how we all got here? On Earth, I mean. Forget the song and dance about Adam and Eve, which I know is a load of crap. My father likes the myth of the Pawnee Indians, who say that the star deities populated the world: Evening Star and Morning Star hooked up and gave birth to the first female. The first boy came from the Sun and the Moon. Humans rode in on the back of a tornado. Mr. Hume, my science teacher, taught us about this primordial soup full of natural gases and muddy slop and carbon matter that somehow solidified into one-celled organisms called choanoflagellates... which sound a lot more like a sexually transmitted disease than the start of the evolutionary chain, in my opinion. But even once you get there, it's a huge leap from an amoeba to a monkey to a whole thinking person. The really amazing thing about all this is no matter what you believe, it took some doing to get from a point where there was nothing, to a point where all the right neurons fire and pop so that we can make decisions. More amazing is how even though that's become second nature, we all still manage to screw it up.
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anna-fitzgerald
choanoflagellates
pawnee-myth
mistakes
genesis
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Jodi Picoult |
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When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them . . . .
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marriage
love
mistakes
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Anne Brontë |
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It's hard to know where to start. Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts. All you can ever really know is that it's wrapped around you, sometimes a little tighter than you'd like. But clearly there have been some mistakes. Bad ones. You can tell that just by looking at him.
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mistakes
one-last-thing
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Jonathan Tropper |