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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Marianne Moore
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.
Robert Burns
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A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Carolyn Wells
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
J. I. Packer
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Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.
George Gamow
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It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
[Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]
Joseph Fouche
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Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.
Mark McCormack
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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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Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.
Muhammad Ali
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"Government gets things right" does not encourage sales. "Government makes another blunder" does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.
John Major
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But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
Abraham Cowley
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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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It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
E. C. Bentley
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In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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 one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.
Arthur Helps
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Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
Josh Billings
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My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.
Dawn French
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It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.
W. Somerset Maugham