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I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

—Samuel Goldwyn

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When someone behaves like a beast, he says, "After all, one is only human." But when he is treated like a beast, he says, "After all, one is human.

—Karl Kraus

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I have not failed. I have found ten thousand ways that won't work.

—Thomas Edison

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We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

—Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

—Thornton Wilder

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The birds are molting. If only man could molt also — his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.

—James Allen

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Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed.

—Jan de Hartog

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I don't think you understand how easy it is to make a mistake that will cost you forever.

—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You

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Sometimes the wrong path can lead us to the right road.

—Jay McLean in Where the Road Takes Me

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To err is human; to forgive, divine.

—Alexander Pope

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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

—Anaïs Nin

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A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

—Piet Hein

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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

—Douglas Adams

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