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Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.
by Josiah Warren (Inventor, American , born in 1798) keywords: any, anything, artificial, combinations, committed, ever, fatal, first, forming, greatest, heard, insisted, know, legislators, mistake, most, other, points, principal, read, reformers, societies, subject , those It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
by Mercy Otis Warren (Playwright, American , born in 1970) keywords: courtesy, cruelty, disposed, man, may, mistake, more, nature, state , than Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
by Thomas John Watson, Sr.keywords: asked, company, cost, employee, experience, fire, going, him, hire, his, just, made, mistake, recently, replied, somebody, spent, training, want, why , would And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.
by Sanford I. Weill (Businessman, American , born in 1933) keywords: becomes, bigger, bury, corrected, fatal, get, hide, learn, make, maybe, mistake, much, rather, surface, than , trying So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
by Vanna White (Celebrity, American , born in 1957) keywords: everyone, home, make, mistake, set, shoe, television, their, throwing , understand I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.
by Kim Wilde (Musician, English , born in 1960) keywords: america, else, enough, get, having, mistake, much, number, probably, someone, spend, them, time, touring, which , would I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.
by Maurice Wilkins (Scientist, New Zealander , born in 1916) keywords: general, going, make, mean, mistake, much, prepared, progress , rule 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.
by Roy H. Williams (Businessman , American) keywords: again, altogether, avoid, finds, him, how, learns, makes, man, mistake, never, smart , wise In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.
by James Q. Wilson (Politician, American , born in 1931) keywords: functions, insisting, making, mistake, monopoly, other, public, school , terms We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
by Woodrow Wilson (President, American , born in 1856) keywords: big, branch, education, every, given, giving, great, made, method, mistake, other, our, perilous, place, preponderance, science, study , too Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
by Bob Woodward (Journalist, American , born in 1943) keywords: admitted, americans, apologized, country, early, error, escaped, failure, forgiving, grand, had, his, mistake, nixon, understand , would I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.
by Boris Yeltsin (Statesman, Russian , born in 1931) keywords: ask, bandits, chechen, everyone, here, lasting, make, mistake, peace, republic, same, so-called, stress, talks, thing , would It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks.
by John Yoo (Educator, American , born in 1967) keywords: attacks, could, court, curing, disarming, future, government, isolated, make, makers, mistake, policy, principal, problem, prove, stop, supreme, terrorist, urges , weapon
