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  She played the elegy for the pianist Josef Hoffman, then asked his opinion....
• The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pelopida...
• [Babe] Ruth made a big mistake when he gave up pitching. -- Tris Speaker, 1921
• It is a very humbling experience to make a multimillion-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable.
  I vividly recall the night we decided how to organize the actual writing of external specifications for OS/360....
• It is a very humbling experience to make a multimillion-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable.
  I vividly recall the night we decided how to organize the actual writing of external specifications for OS/360....
• PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
  An ancient philosopher, expounding his conviction that life is no better than death, was asked by a disciple why, then, he did not die....