Talk:Mistakes

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• Mistakes that are perceived as mistakes are often not mistakes at all.
  • Kirk Douglas.

• You have to learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.
  • Unknown; has been misattributed to Hyman G. Rickover, Eleanor Roosevelt, and others.

• There are certain mistakes we enjoy so much that we are always wiling to repeat them.
  • James Geary

• In the margin for error lies all our room for manoeuvre.
  • James Geary

• The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
  • Herbert V. Prochnow

• I Have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.
  • James Gordon Bennett, Jr.

• Always make new mistakes.
  • Esther Dyson

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