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Tag Name "Blunders" (55)

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Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
Allan Massie
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Blunders rarely travel alone.
Anatoly Karpov
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Fool! cried the hunchback. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
William Goldman
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The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present his understanding of it. Censorship in his case has perpetrated heavy and sometimes reprehensible blunders.
Hollis Alpert
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In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.
Winston Churchill
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Silence never makes any blunders.
Josh Billings
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There is no physical punishment in chess suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer. You lose, you suffer like in any other sport. Suffering euphoria comes when the opponent blunders in a winning position, but it is undeserved.
Lubomir Kavalek
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One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season.
Marlo Thomas
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You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.
Minnie Maddern Fiske
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
A. J. P. Taylor
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Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.
Muhammad Ali
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But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
Abraham Cowley
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The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.
Norbert Wiener
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When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.
Al Neuharth
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Typically, in the last round of open tournaments the level of play is markedly lower, the number of blunders higher.
Pal Benko
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The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
Annie Besant
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During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.
Stephen Ambrose
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Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.
Arthur Alfred Lynch
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It's easier to be old than young. You make just as many blunders, but you've become much more adept at not recognizing them.
Terry Rossio
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There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.
Camille Paglia
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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
Thomas Huxley
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A successful career has been full of blunders.
Charles Buxton
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God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise God make our blunders wise.
Vachel Lindsay
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