"The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing."

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Thomas Huxley

#Mistake Quotes #People Quotes #Making Mistakes Quotes

“Just because you didn't get your way, don't take your ball and go home.”
“Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.”
“Please do not put earthly expectations on a heavenly experience.”
“Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2012). “The History of Love”, p.19, Penguin UK
“Theater really is what I know and what I was exposed to the most. That's really the main artistry that I love about acting. It's what I've experienced the most and what I trained in. I'd say theater is my love.”
“It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.”
“At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2001.
“Let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in books; how easily, how secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness of human ignorance without putting it to shame. These are the masters who instruct us without rods and ferules, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if investigating you interrogate them, they conceal nothing; if you mistake them, they never grumble; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you.”

Source : Richard de Bury (2013). “Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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