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101 " Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future. "
102 " I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. "
― Edward Gibbon
103 " My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour for RCA. Then she made the mistake of marrying me. The next year, another tour, but the third year, she had Mario and said, 'Either I'm a mother or a singer.' "
104 " Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral. "
105 " I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive. "
106 " A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. "
107 " It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true. "
108 " The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone. "
109 " Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening. "
― Henning Mankell
110 " Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs. "
111 " I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion. "
112 " I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed look. "
113 " Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not. "