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"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."
-Nikki Giovanni
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"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female."
-Oscar Wilde
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"The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake."
-Meister Eckhart
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"Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?"
-Peter McWilliams
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"To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all."
-Peter McWilliams
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"We must not say every mistake is a foolish one."
-Cicero
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"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."
-Walter Bagehot
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"The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them."
-Cullen Hightower
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"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."
-Tallulah Bankhead
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"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down."
-Mary Pickford
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"If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it."
-Hildegard Knef
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"If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time."
-Nadine Stair
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"An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured."
-Konrad Adenauer
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"She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. "
-Henry James
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"The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction."
-Freya Stark
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"Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder."
-Paul J. Meyer
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"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them."
-Peter Ustinov
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"Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform."
-Giuseppe Verdi
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"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made."
-Dan Quayle
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"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom."
-Phyllis Theroux
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"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
-Elbert Hubbard
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"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
-James Joyce
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"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise."
-Cato the Elder
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"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
-Sophia Loren
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"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar."
-Donald Foster
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"As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes."
-Mel Brooks
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