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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
"Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage."	Henry Brooks Adams
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."	Scott Adams
"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
"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
"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
"If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible."	Bernard Mannes Baruch
"If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible."	Bernard Mannes Baruch
"No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the mistake is to do it solemnly."	D. A. Battista
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."	Orlando A. Battista
"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
"We made too many wrong mistakes."	Lawrence Peter Berra
"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."	Josh Billings
"Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us."	Henry C. Blinn
"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
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field."	Niels Henrik David Bohr
"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake..."	Nelson Boswell
"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
"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
"God don't make no mistakes. That's how He got to be God."	Archie Bunker
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Millard Fillmore	Morris Raphael Cohen	Nelson Boswell
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Robert Green Ingersoll	Sandra Carey	Scott Adams
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Sydney J. Harris	Ted W. Engstrom	Terry Hands
Thomas Henry Huxley	Tryon Edwards	W. Somerset Maugham
Wayne W(alter) Dyer	Werner Karl Heisenberg	William Connor Magee
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