#mistakes

Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes. ↗

— William Shatner

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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

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Frankly, I've got to admit that I'm not perfect and have made some mistakes as some of the colourful stories about me reveal. ↗

— Peter Slipper

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I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage. ↗

— Ringo Starr

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Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. ↗

— Bill Cosby

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ↗

— James Joyce

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