Her arrests were "totally irresponsible -- a stupid mistake, " she said.

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Fernandez admits this was a "stupid mistake", but it was one which was quickly corrected.

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He admitted the group had made a "stupid mistake" in not getting kitted out with crampons and ice axes.

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Matthew Jagger, 20, from Manchester, said he made a "stupid mistake" going up the mountain with four friends without crampons or an ice axe.

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You might rationalize that it wouldn't be, to someone spending seven or eight million, but you still look and feel stupid explaining a mistake at that price to them as a boo-boo.

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James' mother described it as "a stupid, silly little mistake" of hers to let go of her child's hand for a few seconds on 12 February 1993 at the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle.

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"Bush makes a mistake and he's just considered stupid, " Snyder says.

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They resist at all costs the temptation to justify the actions they took yesterday or last year or a decade ago (which the voters heartily endorsed), and admit openly and gratefully that all of these were a terrible mistake, based on a false premise, exhibiting an unforgivable arrogance, that they will never be stupid enough to pursue, believe or exhibit ever again.

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