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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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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all. -Peter McWilliams
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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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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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Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Ralph Nader
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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 to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

Hildegard Knef
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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 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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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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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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We make mistakes the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our industry. -L. Estrange
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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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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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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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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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We've all made mistakes on the way.

Jim Kunevicious
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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver
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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -Niels Bohr
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