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The first mistake in public business is the going into it. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life. ↗

— Michael A. Singer

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Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

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There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake. ↗

— Robert Fripp

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I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

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You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes. ↗

— Michelle Kwan

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In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted. ↗

— Mercedes Ruehl

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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections. ↗

— Larry J. Sabato

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