1. "Vallejo typical of many small California towns—a blunder."
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Robert Graysmith, Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed
2. "Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?"
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
3. "Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret."
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Quote by Benjamin Disraeli
4. "Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life."
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Quote by Benjamin Disraeli
5. "I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. From His Last Bow"
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Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle
6. "...This particular blunder is known as deus ex machina, which is French for "Are you fucking kidding me?"
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Howard Mittelmark, How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
7. "When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy"
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Gurcharan Das, India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age
8. "When great men blunder, they count their losses in pride and reputation and glory. The underlings count their losses in blood. —Theodore C. Mason, Battleship Sailor (1982)"
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James D. Hornfischer, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
9. "Failure to prevent the Great Depression during the 1930s was the Fed’s greatest blunder until the runaway inflation of the 1970s."
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William L. Silber, Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence
10. "O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion."
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Robert Burns, The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns