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I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy.

— Deborah Sampson

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✓Similar Perspectives

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

— Bob Dylan

I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there.

— Woody Hayes

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

— W. C. Fields

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

— Ulysses S. Grant

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

— Brian Eno

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

— Gerrit Smith

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

— Oliver North

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

— Al Gore

I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me know about that, and I'll be the first one to change it.

— Gary Johnson

Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?

— Yeardley Smith

✗Opposing Perspectives

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