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"Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint."

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  1. noun Rapidity of action or motion.
  2. noun Overeagerness to act.
  3. noun Rash or headlong action; precipitateness.
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  • "Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint." —  democracyarsenal.org
  • "Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequeces without complaint." —  It's Magic!
  • McCain has said this about his decision making style in his 2002 book: Worth the Fighting For ... “I make them [decisions] as quickly as I can, quicker than the other fellow, ... often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint. †—  Top Stories - Google News
  • "Often my haste is a mistake," McCain conceded in his 2002 memoir, "but I live with the consequences without complaint." —  Signs of the Times
  • "Often my haste is a mistake," McCain conceded in his —  HOWIEINSEATTLE
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eagerness ·  hurry ·  impatience ·  anxiety ·  agitation ·  urgency ·  confusion ·  vehemence ·  rapidity ·  anger ·  embarrassment ·  zeal
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle English haste, haste (this sense being late, and prob., in English, of Old French origin), from Anglo-Saxon hæst, hǣst, violence (cf. hǣst, adjective, violent, vehement, hǣst-līce, adverb, violently; all the Anglo-Saxon forms being rare and poetical), = OFries. hæst (not *hast), NFries. hæste, haste (cf. OFries. hæst, hast (hāst), violent, hasty) = Middle Dutch haest, Dutch haast, haste (later Old French haste, French hâte, haste), = Middle Low German Low German hast, haste, = Middle High German hest, heyst, adjective, violent, = Old High German heist, haist, violent, German hast (from Low German?), haste, = Swedish Old Swedish hast, haste, = Danish hast, haste, = Icelandic hastr, haste (Haldorsen; not in Cleasby and Vigfusson, where, however, the derivs. hastarligr, hasty, hastarliga, hastily). Cf. Icelandic hastr, harsh, höstugr, harsh. The earliest notion is that of ‘violence’ or ‘vehemence,’ but two words may here be merged. The early records are scant.
  2. from Middle English hasten (present indicative haste) = Middle Dutch haesten, Dutch haasten = German hasten = Old Swedish Swedish hasta = Danish haste, haste, hurry; Old French haster, French hâter, transitive haste, despatch, press, reflexive haste, go speedily; from the noun. Hasten is but a modern extension of haste, after the analogy of fast, v., fasten, list, v., listen, etc.
  3. Not found in Middle English (except as in deriv.), but ult. from Old French *haster, in past participle hasté, roasted, as a noun a roast, from haste, a spit, from Latin hasta, a spear, pike, Middle Latin also a spit, haslet: see hastate. Cf. haslet, hasteler, hastler, hastener, haster.
 

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