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I Wish That I Had Not Said That

It's easy to say something which you later wish you had not said. Most times it is quickly forgotten, but that depends on who you are, and who you say it about. For example, any mistakes by politicians or celebrities will be remembered and quoted for years afterwards.
Here are some famous and not so famous examples of quotes that they wish they had not said.

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We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. - Jason Kidd, after his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people. - Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle

Whenever I can I always watch the Detroit Tigers on radio. - Former U.S. President Gerald Ford

When in 1624 Cornelius van Drebel invented a submarine, the British Admiralty said that it was "a damn silly, trifling novelty that will never catch on".

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In 1978 a man charged with murder escaped from the custody of the Irish police. The Garda Press Office, issued a statement to the effect that, `He is no more dangerous than any other murderer.'

'I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas' - Ernst Mach (1838-1916), professor of physics at the University of Vienna.

`Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible'- Simon Newcomb (1835-1909). The first flight by the Wright Brothers eighteen months afterwards did not affect his opinion.

`Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia' - Dr Dionysys Lardner (1793-1859), professor of natural philosophy and astronomy at University College, London. He also asserted that no large steamship would ever be able to cross the Atlantic, since it would require more coal than it could carry. Two years later the Great Western crossed the Atlantic.

`Heaven and earth were created all together in the same instant, on October 23rd, 4004 B.C. at nine o'clock in the morning'- Dr John Lightfoot, vice-chancellor of Cambridge University just before the publication of Darwin's Origin of the Species.

`If Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is not by some means abridged, it will soon fall into disuse' -Philip Hale, Boston music critic, 1837. `I played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms. What a giftless *******! It annoys me that this self-inflated mediocrity is hailed as a genius. Why, in comparison with him, Raff is a genius' - Tchaikovsky's diary, 9 October 1886.

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MURPHY'S LAW: - If anything can go wrong, it will.

1. Nothing is as easy as it looks.

2. Everything takes longer than you think.

3. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause ', the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

4. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way will promptly develop.

5. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

6. Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.

7. Every solution breeds new problems.

8. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

9., Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

10. Mother nature is a bitch.

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