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"In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake; all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S."	William Seward Burroughs
"[Jesus'] ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control?"	Joan B. Campbell
"I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries."	Frank Capra
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."	Sandra Carey
"I think it a very happy accident."	Miguel de Cervantes
"Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims."	Morris Raphael Cohen
"I've made a couple of mistakes I'd like to do over."	Jerry Coleman
"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop."	Edwin Conklin
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."	Mary Lou Cook
"No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain; its impressions are unmistakable."	Marquis de Sade
"The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies "an accident going to happen."	John Sloan Dickey
"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment."	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future."	Diane Elizabeth Duane
"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."	William James "Will" Durant
"Most people are searching for happines. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves.That's a fundemental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think."	Wayne W(alter) Dyer
"He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today."	Tryon Edwards
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."	Albert Einstein
"It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."	Albert Einstein
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."	Albert Einstein
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