"We played some good stuff going forward, but were punished for our mistakes, especially at their equalizer, " France coach Didier Deschamps told reporters.

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Putting out of our minds the wrongs others hand done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes.

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At one time we were very poor, but we have never blamed anyone for our misfortune or mistakes.

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There are degrees of complexity, though, and intensive-care medicine has grown so far beyond ordinary complexity that avoiding daily mistakes is proving impossible even for our super-specialists.

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We work hard and earn our money and are forced to make up for the mistakes of others.

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My hope for the future is that these children will receive an education that has learnt from our mistakes, our arguments and our successes, and that we might indeed learn from their progress.

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The Signal And The Noise is aptly titled as we humans still make many of the same mistakes our animal brethren elsewhere in the world make, prone to look for patterns or meaning in the noisiest of data sets.

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Everyone makes mistakes, after all, especially when it comes to the labyrinthine options for sharing on our smartphones.

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