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Make mistakes, just don’t make them permanent.
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The quote accepts that mistakes are part of life, but warns against letting them define what comes next. “Don’t make them permanent” means a mistake should be corrected, learned from, or left behind rather than repeated or treated as unchangeable. It encourages action after failure without pretending that mistakes do not matter.
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