Talk:Mistakes

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 * The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
 * Tallulah Bankhead


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


 * It is necessary to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.
 * Correctly attributed to Hyman G. Rickover via "Thoughts on Man's Purpose in Life" speech (Morgenthau Memorial Lecture; full version)


 * There are certain mistakes we enjoy so much that we are always wiling to repeat them.
 * 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


 * An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
 * German Proverb


 * Always make new mistakes.
 * Esther Dyson


 * There are only two mistakes one can make on the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.
 * Buddha


 * Kosa moja haliachi mke.
 * Swahili proverb; Idiomatic Translation: "One mistake isn't reason enough to leave your wife"; Literal Meaning: A single mistake should be met with forgiveness, not condemnation.


 * There are no mistcakes, there were no mistcakes, there will be no mistcakes.
 * Unknown