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But the reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. And the fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
Paul Ryan
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
G. I. Gurdjieff
I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
Ann Richards
Pride is great up to the point you begin to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The rule of Satanism is: if it works for you, great. When it stops working for you, when you've painted yourself into a corner and the only way out is to say, I'm sorry, I made a mistake, I wish we could compromise somehow, then do it.
Anton LaVey
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
Oscar Wilde
The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say "well done."
John Ashcroft
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
Bertrand Russell
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
Jules Verne
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen
When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
David Hume
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion.
Carl Sagan
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist - someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
Peter Senge
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
Pauline Kael
There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.
Marilyn Monroe
Pytheos made a mistake by not observing that the arts are each composed of two things, the actual work and the theory of it. One of these, the doing of the work, is proper to men trained in the individual subject, while the other the theory is common to all scholars.
Vitruvius
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ever since, and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
Kurt Vonnegut
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Peter McWilliams
[E]xclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
Alfred Austin
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
Garrett Hardin
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