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You have to learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Variations of this quote have been attributed to a number of people, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Samuel Levenson, and Lao Tzu; there is no solid support for any such attribution.

 

Hyman G. Rickover

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