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"A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
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— Joan Rivers
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— Joan Rivers
"Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? (Anne Shirley)"
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
"What sets a man writhing sleepless in bed at night is not having injured his fellow so much as having been wrong; the mere injury he can efface by destroying the victim and the witness but the mistake is his and that is one of his cats which he always prefers to choke to death with butter."
— William Faulkner (Intruder in the Dust)
— William Faulkner (Intruder in the Dust)
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"Yes, I Have Made Mistakes. I'm Young, I Will Make Countless More. It's What You Learn From Your Mistakes That Matters"
— Nicole Stacey-O'Reilly
— Nicole Stacey-O'Reilly
"But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked."
— Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Chosen)
— Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Chosen)
"Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making"
— Reba McEntire
— Reba McEntire
"Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach."
— Roger Von Oech
— Roger Von Oech
""its like you said? i lead my people-"
"forth!" zifnab carried on enthusiastically! " out of eygpt! out of bondage! across the desert! pillar of fire-"
"desert?" lenthan looked anxious again. "fire? i thought we were going to the stars!"
"sorry. wrong script" zifnab said"
— Margaret Weis (Elven Star)
"forth!" zifnab carried on enthusiastically! " out of eygpt! out of bondage! across the desert! pillar of fire-"
"desert?" lenthan looked anxious again. "fire? i thought we were going to the stars!"
"sorry. wrong script" zifnab said"
— Margaret Weis (Elven Star)
"Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if— as the war ends, or at least starts to end— if, at this time, the history of the war is written as us going there to topple the regime of a bad man when that frankly isn‘t why were told that we were going there— Aren‘t we still at risk of making this horrific mistake again? And, aren‘t we letting the people who foisted the WMD idea on us, not many years ago, aren‘t we sort of letting them get away with it?"
— Rachel Maddow
— Rachel Maddow
"If you turn a new page everytime you make a mistake,, you'll never finish a book.."
— Dr مُعِزّة alIslam
— Dr مُعِزّة alIslam
"No, it wasn't an accident, I didn't say that. It was carefully planned, down to the tiniest mechanical and emotional detail. But it WAS a mistake."
— Nevil Shute
— Nevil Shute
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