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Now it was then that I made a fatal mistake, in that I told a friend about the voice, and she was horrified.
Suddenly the voice didn't seem quite so benign anymore, and when she insisted that I seek medical attention, I duly complied, and which proved to be mistake number two.
That guy made a mistake.
I would argue today, when we are distributing tools that we've designed and that don't necessarily make sense in people's lives, we run the risk of making the same mistake again.
Well, let's start there with the phrase "All David has is this sling," because that's the first mistake that we make.
And my goodbye greeting from the chief of infectious diseases at San Francisco General was, "Gary, this is the biggest mistake you'll ever make."
I just figured I'd made a mistake, and went back to the right, and so slid the chair in perfect synchronicity.
Total mistake, right?
Additionally, that very few who have jumped off the bridge and lived and can talk about it, that one to two percent, most of those folks have said that the second that they let go of that rail, they knew that they had made a mistake and they wanted to live.
I'm sure you'll hear every mistake I make."
It's a mistake to think that in hard choices, one alternative really is better than the other, but we're too stupid to know which, and since we don't know which, we might as well take the least risky option.
If alternatives are equally good, you should just flip a coin between them, and it seems a mistake to think, here's how you should decide between careers, places to live, people to marry: Flip a coin.
When alternatives are on a par, the reasons given to us, the ones that determine whether we're making a mistake, are silent as to what to do.
How could I make such a stupid mistake?
The brown building is the one you guys have been looking at and I'll tell you where I made my big mistake.
That was probably our first mistake.
And maybe it's a mistake to think like that.
Who would you rather be treated by? (Applause) Now, make no mistake — Western medicine is the most successful system of healing ever devised, but there's plenty of holes in it.
Can I see a show of hands of anyone here who didn't make a mistake or do something they regretted at 22? Yep.
Not a day goes by that I'm not reminded of my mistake, and I regret that mistake deeply.
The landscape has sadly become much more populated with instances like mine, whether or not someone actually made a mistake, and now, it's for both public and private people.
So by now, I think I have convinced you that Mars is very special to us, but it would be a mistake to think that Mars is the only place in the solar system that is interesting to find potential microbial life.
I know now how scared he must have been, how easily I could have fallen into the empty of the night, that some man would mistake this water for a good reason to wash all of this away.
That the whims of adolescence are too dangerous for your breath, that you cannot simply be curious, that you are not afforded the luxury of making a mistake, that someone's implicit bias might be the reason you don't wake up in the morning.
Those fishing boats were taken out, the men put to work, and they were thrown overboard if they made the mistake of falling sick, or trying to resist their treatment.
Even when crawling all over the bottle, the male couldn't discover his mistake.
And as the 30 seconds we waited two and a half hours for comes to a close we gather up our things, and I lock eyes with the clerk again; and she gives me an apologetic smile and mouths, "I am so sorry!" (Laughter) And her humanity, her willingness to admit her mistake disarms me immediately, then I give her a: "It's okay, it happens.
"Make no mistake about it," he said, "these women are warriors, and they have written a new chapter in what it means to be a female in the United States Army."
The principal said, "There's a dreadful mistake, because that child can't read.
What was the mistake that was made?
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