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"If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity 'happen.'"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not putting on your armor because you were 'just going down to the corner.'"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"I remember how the other kids used to say that old Mister Swenson was the meanest man in town. But I said I thought he was nice, that he just didn't know how to show it. The meanest man in town, I said, was the mean old guy who lived in the big white house. 'THAT'S MISTER SWENSON,' they said. Oh, my mistake."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise."	Terry Hands
"The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones-which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones."	Sydney J. Harris
"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."	Coleman Hawking
"To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."	Robert Anson Heinlein
"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them."	Werner Karl Heisenberg
"We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them."	Lillian Hellman
"Never mistake motion for action."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."	Conrad Hilton
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so."	Adolf Hitler
"The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one."	Elbert Hubbard
"The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."	Thomas Henry Huxley
"I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain."	Robert Green Ingersoll
"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you?"	Henry James
"Get rid of imagined guilt. You did the best you could at the time, all things considered. If you made mistakes, learn to accept that we are all imperfect. Only hindsight is 20-20. If you are convinced that you have real guilt, consider professional or spiritual counseling (with a competent and trustworthy counselor). If you believe in God a pastor can help you believe also in God's forgiveness."	Amy Hillyard Jensen
"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."	Billy Joel
"It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy." (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)"	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."	Franklin P. Jones
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