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"They were just mistakes.
I say "sins", not just "mistakes", advisedly.
They were just mistakes that were made.
"We're just mistakes who got up and walked off.
The rest come from innocent, flailing attempts to sound smart and sophisticated, or they're just mistakes (i.e., "orientate" for "orient").
David Chu, the Defense Department's under secretary for personnel, defended the waiver policy, saying it took into consideration the whole person and his or her future abilities, not just mistakes the person might have made.
We even pretend we love shoes more than we do, keeping lots of shoes we hardly ever wear with the excuse that "I'm just crazy about shoes!" – when the truth is that at least 70% are just mistakes, shoes we thought we could wear in a moment of craving in the shop, then found on their first outing that this was far from the case.
"I prefer to believe that it was just mistakes in the process of counting votes, rather than a deliberate fraud".
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