#taken

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken. ↗

— George Berkeley

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It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer. ↗

— Howard Berman

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A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed. ↗

— Alexander Chase

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It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play. ↗

— Dizzy Gillespie

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I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades. ↗

— Bela Kun

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Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance. ↗

— Max Bill

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It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected. ↗

— Larry Bird

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I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries. ↗

— Jane Birkin

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I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second. ↗

— Hope Davis

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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

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