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A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision (2) acknowledged as a mistake (3) learned from (4) considered valuable (5) shared for the benefit of all.
Pete Seeger
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Pete Seeger
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: May 3
Died: 2014
Died: January 27
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I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.
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But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.
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