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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." Douglas Noel Adams 4.3889 average rating  
"Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage." Henry Brooks Adams 3.2000 average rating  
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." Scott Adams 4.7455 average rating  
"At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time." Woody Allen 3.3333 average rating  
"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall." Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 4.5882 average rating  
"Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society." Edward C. Banfield 3.6667 average rating  
"If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible." Bernard Mannes Baruch 3.7500 average rating  
"If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible." Bernard Mannes Baruch 4.7000 average rating  
"No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the mistake is to do it solemnly." D. A. Battista 3.3333 average rating  
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." Orlando A. Battista 4.8819 average rating  
"We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were." John Berger 4.9091 average rating  
"We made too many wrong mistakes." Lawrence Peter Berra 4.8333 average rating  
"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does." Josh Billings 4.2500 average rating  
"Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us." Henry C. Blinn 4.5000 average rating  
"The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their 'luck' arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed." Srully D. Blotnick 2.6000 average rating  
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." Niels Henrik David Bohr 4.9429 average rating  
"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake..." Nelson Boswell 4.5833 average rating  
"When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power." Phyllis Bottome 4.6500 average rating  
"Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa? If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure don't see him very often in the big city. The big-city Grandpa has gone big time. ... He is the life of every party, and out to prove he is just as young as he ever was. A grandchild who makes the mistake of calling him 'Gramps' is lucky if he isn't rewarded by a quick kick in the stomach." Hal 2.6000 average rating  
"God don't make no mistakes. That's how He got to be God." Archie Bunker 5.0000 average rating  
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