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"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."	Albert Einstein
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process."	Ted W. Engstrom
"We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it."	George Farquhar
"The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten."	Jules Feiffer
"It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress."	Millard Fillmore
"Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!"	Derwood Fincher
"It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are."	Penelope Fitzgerald
"A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something."	Phoenix Flame
"By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions."	Richard Buckminster Fuller
"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."	Edward Gibbon
"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."	Nikki Giovanni
"A clever man commits no minor blunders."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily handled than dumb mistakes."	William Wister Haines
"I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed psychiatrist is our 'friend.'"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like that snail. I build a defensive wall around myself, a 'shell' if you will. But my shell isn't made out of a hard, protective substance. Mine is made out of tinfoil and paper bags."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"You can't tell me that cowboys, when they're branding cattle, don't sort of 'accidentally' brand each other every once in a while. It's their way of letting off stress."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"When you first start wearing a turban, probably the most common mistake is wrapping it too tight. You have to allow the head to breathe."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
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