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“You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But you can keep updating your plan.”

Might Mistake Plans Circumstances Mood Planning Swings Execution Mood Swing

Author:Eric Maisel

“We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.”

Choices Mistake Circumstances Defeat Setback Our Choices Staggering

Author:James C. Collins

“Cash is cold comfort under these circumstances. But make no mistake about it; It is some comfort.”

Money Mistake Cold Circumstances Comfort Cash

Author:Georgette Mosbacher

“One of the big mistakes they made in Europe is that the circumstances in which you most frequently read or hear the word "race" or "racism" in Europe applies to Muslims. Which is not a race. It is a religion. You can convert to this. You cannot convert your race. I could become a Muslim. I could not become a Chinese person or a black person. So they constantly use that in Europe.”

Persons Made Use Bigs Black Race Mistake Circumstances Racism Europe Chinese Big Mistake Black Person

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.”

“We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do.”

Trying Perfect Mistake Honest Circumstances Method Not Perfect Right Direction

Author:Anita Roddick

“One of the great intellectual mistakes Einstein made is that he thought that space and time are physically or ontologically entangled. In the present non-spatial universal computational program, space and time happen to be entangled to the extent that, under certain unique circumstances, changes in spatial measurements indicate changes in temporal ones. However, a change in the program itself may cause space and time to disentangle.”

May Made Happens Certain Causes Space Mistake Circumstances Unique Intellectual Program Universal Time And Space Measurement Spatial

Author:Kedar Joshi

“The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is...rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now. We are doing things better, we are smarter, we have learned from past mistakes. The old rules of valuation no longer apply. Unfortunately, a highly leveraged economy can unwittingly be sitting with its back at the edge of a financial cliff for many years before chance and circumstance provoke a crisis of confidence that pushes it off.”

“You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.”

Mistake Circumstances Redemption Contradiction Hopeless Same Mistakes

Author:Chris Bauer

“The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western world make the great mistake of assuming that ours is the only form of good government; that democracy means what it means in the Anglo-American world and a few other places in the West, but not many others. Muslims have their own tradition on limited government. Now in Islam, there is a very strong political tradition. Because the different circumstances, Islam is political from the very beginning.”

World Mean Different Political Strong Mistake Democracy Circumstances Tradition Assuming Islam Western Very Strong Loan Limited Government

Author:Bernard Lewis

“Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.”

Ifs Life Firsts Mean Long Two Answers Mistake Education Circumstances Training Oneself Work Out Complicated Chains Ties Involving Right Answers

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”

“No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.”

Giving Mistake Principles Circumstances Blessing Intention Excuse Deny Respectable Good Intentions No Excuses Absolution

Book:The fall

Source: The fall