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If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of Almighty God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave. – Samuel Adams	added by Normando 6 months ago
When I turned 15, my father let me drive our old ’66 Chevy Impala and I was finally able to get a “real” job – at a fast-food restaurant. Where else at that age? I never stopped working. For most of my life, I worked a good 15-20 hours a day, for years, and I made the mistake of thinking I was damn near invincible, only to eventually find out I wasn’t. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 6 months ago
How often we mistake numbness for healing, only to find the pain waiting for you at the front door with a wink. You can run from it, but you can't hide from it. If you don't heal it, it will find its way back to you. – Christen Kuikoua	added by anonymous 8 months ago
[W]e made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers. – Robert E. Lee	added by Normando 1 year ago
Make no mistake, I will win any race I enter. – Samuel Corum/Bloomberg/Getty Images Manchin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s a very rural area with dirt roads. It’s easy to get lost. They drove up this driveway for a very short time, realized their mistake and were leaving, when Mr. Monahan came out and fired two shots. – Washington County	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m worried about every mother, don’t ever, ever make the mistake that I made, letting your child go (to the hospital) alone. We need to give more attention to what’s going on. – Patricia Pouncey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There is no excuse for my actions. The only thing that led to what happened was my personal ignorance, agung is a sacred symbol for the Balinese. After studying the culture and religion of Bali, I realized my mistake. – Yuri Chilikin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Even when — especially when — their friend is struggling or going through something hard, you know someone is a true friend when they have your back when you’re sick, when you lose your job, when you make a mistake, when you’re going through a break-up, when you’re stressed, when you’re sad. – Adam Smiley Poswolsky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The less days of work you lose, the better, but make no mistake, three days of lost pay may not sound like a lot. But if you’re making $14,000 a year and living paycheck to paycheck to paycheck, a three-day strike is making a sacrifice. – Lester Garcia	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Fed needs to secure both price stability and financial stability, something that it has failed to so recently, having already dug itself, and the US economy, into a big hole with its prolonged mischaracterization of inflation and flip-flopping policies, it can ill afford another slippage in what is proving to be the biggest policy mistake in the last four decades. – Jerome Powell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
So, people can choose what they want. They can’t make a mistake. They can’t go wrong with me. – The Emmy-winner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I believe woke ideology is pernicious. I believe what’s at stake is not just ‘My policies are good,’ we should not all be suffering under the cloak of wokeness. … This issue with Disney is a good example of that. … They were basically a law unto themselves, and they got away with it for a long time because they were so powerful. They were the 800-pound gorilla, but they made the mistake of trying to stick their nose into sensitive matters involving children, involving education, and involving family. – Ron DeSantis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Procedural mistakes should splatter like paint. It’s messy but the results should be random. In my four years here every mistake DOJ has made has benefited one side and harmed the other. That’s a hell of a coincidence. – Kelly Armstrong	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Discounting whistleblowers before the Democrats know what the witnesses have to offer says a lot more about their agenda than it does about the validity of the whistleblowers, procedural mistakes should splatter like paint. It’s messy but the results should be random. In my four years here every mistake DOJ has made has benefited one side and harmed the other. That’s a hell of a coincidence. – Kelly Armstrong	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Your best teacher is your last mistake. – Branden Condy	added by BrandenCondy 1 year ago
I’ve engaged my counterpart early on and told him that this would be a very bad mistake if China were to do this. It would complicate things. – Lloyd Austin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When we got the data, everyone just started diving in and these massive things popped out really fast, we started doing the modeling and tried to figure out what they were, because they were so big and bright. My first thought was we had made a mistake and we would just find it and move on with our lives. But we have yet to find that mistake, despite a lot of trying. – Joel Leja	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters. – A.E. Samaan	added by AlvaroSiman 1 year ago
I told them it’s a good idea. But when I’m talking to someone over 50 or who has chronic conditions, I’m pushing it more, for young people, it’s a matter of choice. There are different personalities and risk perceptions. I won’t say it’s a major mistake for a person who’s 20-something not to get the booster. – Nadav Davidovitch	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Make no mistake: as we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country. And we did. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Make no mistake: As we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country. And we did. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The mistake on my part, being a freshman, I didn’t understand the importance of attaching appropriations, i didn’t understand what an unfunded mandate was and how difficult that would make it for school districts to incorporate it. – Rudolph Bradley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. – Mark Twain	added by JokerGem 1 year ago

If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of Almighty God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

– Samuel Adams

added by Normando
6 months ago

When I turned 15, my father let me drive our old ’66 Chevy Impala and I was finally able to get a “real” job – at a fast-food restaurant. Where else at that age? I never stopped working. For most of my life, I worked a good 15-20 hours a day, for years, and I made the mistake of thinking I was damn near invincible, only to eventually find out I wasn’t.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
6 months ago

How often we mistake numbness for healing, only to find the pain waiting for you at the front door with a wink. You can run from it, but you can't hide from it. If you don't heal it, it will find its way back to you.

– Christen Kuikoua

added by anonymous
8 months ago

[W]e made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers.

– Robert E. Lee

added by Normando
1 year ago

Make no mistake, I will win any race I enter.

– Samuel Corum/Bloomberg/Getty Images Manchin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s a very rural area with dirt roads. It’s easy to get lost. They drove up this driveway for a very short time, realized their mistake and were leaving, when Mr. Monahan came out and fired two shots.

– Washington County

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m worried about every mother, don’t ever, ever make the mistake that I made, letting your child go (to the hospital) alone. We need to give more attention to what’s going on.

– Patricia Pouncey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is no excuse for my actions. The only thing that led to what happened was my personal ignorance, agung is a sacred symbol for the Balinese. After studying the culture and religion of Bali, I realized my mistake.

– Yuri Chilikin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even when — especially when — their friend is struggling or going through something hard, you know someone is a true friend when they have your back when you’re sick, when you lose your job, when you make a mistake, when you’re going through a break-up, when you’re stressed, when you’re sad.

– Adam Smiley Poswolsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The less days of work you lose, the better, but make no mistake, three days of lost pay may not sound like a lot. But if you’re making $14,000 a year and living paycheck to paycheck to paycheck, a three-day strike is making a sacrifice.

– Lester Garcia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Fed needs to secure both price stability and financial stability, something that it has failed to so recently, having already dug itself, and the US economy, into a big hole with its prolonged mischaracterization of inflation and flip-flopping policies, it can ill afford another slippage in what is proving to be the biggest policy mistake in the last four decades.

– Jerome Powell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So, people can choose what they want. They can’t make a mistake. They can’t go wrong with me.

– The Emmy-winner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I believe woke ideology is pernicious. I believe what’s at stake is not just ‘My policies are good,’ we should not all be suffering under the cloak of wokeness. … This issue with Disney is a good example of that. … They were basically a law unto themselves, and they got away with it for a long time because they were so powerful. They were the 800-pound gorilla, but they made the mistake of trying to stick their nose into sensitive matters involving children, involving education, and involving family.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Procedural mistakes should splatter like paint. It’s messy but the results should be random. In my four years here every mistake DOJ has made has benefited one side and harmed the other. That’s a hell of a coincidence.

– Kelly Armstrong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Discounting whistleblowers before the Democrats know what the witnesses have to offer says a lot more about their agenda than it does about the validity of the whistleblowers, procedural mistakes should splatter like paint. It’s messy but the results should be random. In my four years here every mistake DOJ has made has benefited one side and harmed the other. That’s a hell of a coincidence.

– Kelly Armstrong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

– Branden Condy

added by BrandenCondy
1 year ago

I’ve engaged my counterpart early on and told him that this would be a very bad mistake if China were to do this. It would complicate things.

– Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When we got the data, everyone just started diving in and these massive things popped out really fast, we started doing the modeling and tried to figure out what they were, because they were so big and bright. My first thought was we had made a mistake and we would just find it and move on with our lives. But we have yet to find that mistake, despite a lot of trying.

– Joel Leja

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters.

– A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

I told them it’s a good idea. But when I’m talking to someone over 50 or who has chronic conditions, I’m pushing it more, for young people, it’s a matter of choice. There are different personalities and risk perceptions. I won’t say it’s a major mistake for a person who’s 20-something not to get the booster.

– Nadav Davidovitch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Make no mistake: as we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country. And we did.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Make no mistake: As we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country. And we did.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The mistake on my part, being a freshman, I didn’t understand the importance of attaching appropriations, i didn’t understand what an unfunded mandate was and how difficult that would make it for school districts to incorporate it.

– Rudolph Bradley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

– Mark Twain

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

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