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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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Sandi Toksvig Danish and British broadcaster, comedian and writer
I wouldn’t bother learning how to use logarithms, and I might give netball a miss.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗
Rosa Parks Civil-rights activist
As I look back on those days, it’s just like a dream. The only thing that bothered me was that we waited so long to make this protest and to let it be known wherever we go that all of us should be free and equal and have all opportunities that others should have.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗
Bill Bryson American-British author
Nothing. It’s too risky. What if you eliminated a misjudged situation from your life and it turned out that one of your children wasn’t born, or you failed to meet your partner?
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 February 2016 source ↗

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