Quote by James Bryce
Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows. – James Bryce

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Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. – James Bryce

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Patriot Day
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Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existance. – James Bryce

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Medicine
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There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut. – James Bryce

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Sin
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Our friends dont see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them. – Joseph Addison

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Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. – Andrew V. Mason

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No one is worse, for knowing the worst of themselves. – Proverb

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Its okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers — they help us to learn. – John Bradshaw

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A culture without property, or in which creators cant get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. – Lawrence Lessig

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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. – Otto Dix

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But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths. – Donna Shalala

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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

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