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You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time.
"People who make these bold predictions tend to overestimate how likely extreme events are, so, while they may happen to hit it right once in a while, over all they're not actually good forecasters," Fang told me.
It may not matter too much, as "whom" seems to be disappearing from English usage altogether, but it would be nice to get it right once in a while.
Obama took Lundquist's question (does the left-handed president have problems going right?) and turned it to political humor, saying, "I went to the Republican House caucus just yesterday to prove I could go to my right once in a while".
While Hollywood has a tendency to whack on a few temporary tattoos of incomprehensible Chinese characters to signify any actor is supposed to be "tough" or "criminal" (you realise that means "breadsticks bouncy castle", right?), once in a while someone gets real smart with it.
If you want to be less controlling, then you have to work on letting others be right once in a while, and seeing that it's not the end of the world if you don't know the answer or if someone else has more experience or more insight into a given situation.
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"It's great to do the right thing once in a while," he said.
RS: Right, but every once in a while there's a crack in the system, or some candidate can surprise you by using their victory in good ways.
"And even those two people have the right to be wrong once in a while".
Oliver says he's not advocating that minor offenses go unpunished, but that we should have the "right to fuck up once in a while without completely destroying our lives".
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