Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.

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• Winston Churchill

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• Robert Frost

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• Charles Spurgeon

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• John Muir

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• Ernest Hemingway

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• W. Edwards Deming

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  Sunday, Oct 14, 1900
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• Steven Wright

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• Joe Biden

  Vice President Of The United States

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• Friedrich Nietzsche

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  Tuesday, Oct 15, 1844
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States

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• Benjamin Franklin

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• Robin Williams

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  Saturday, Jul 21, 1951
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• Alfred Lord Tennyson

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  Saturday, Aug 05, 1809
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• William Blake

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  Monday, Nov 28, 1757
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