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• The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

  Norbert Wiener

  Math, Fields, Logic

  "Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth". Book by Norbert Wiener, 1964.

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• During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Beach, Wall, Military

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• A successful career has been full of blunders.

  Charles Buxton

  Successful, Careers, Has Beens

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• We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Judging, World, Study

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• Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Violence, Seven

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• Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.

  Marcus Garvey

  Believe, Justice, Age

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.27, Ravenio Books

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• The wise Christian will learn from the spiritual blunders of others.

  Max Anders

  Christian, Wise, Spiritual

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• There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Compassion, Animal

  'Umwerthung aller Werthe' (1888) bk. 1 'Der Antichrist' aphorism 48

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• I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get back their notes and see what they've said. I don't criticize myself for making blunders here and there, because it's just natural. You write in chunks, and you may not remember that that sentence you wrote yesterday had the same word repeated three times. I do enjoy that. I love the feeling of repairing. Repairing is really nice.

  Steve Martin

  Nice, Writing, Editing

  "Steve Martin: The Powells.com Interview". Interview with Jill Owens, www.powells.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Silence never makes any blunders.

  Josh Billings

  Silence

  Josh Billings (1913). “Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised”

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• I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Black, Information

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• It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

  Abraham Maslow

  Hope, Motivation, Fear

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• I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.

  Margaret Atwood

  Girl, Boys, Awkward

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Motivational, Men, Idols

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• Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Choices, Climate

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• I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold it out. Of all the speculative blunders there are few greater than trying to average a losing game. Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Loss, Average, Games

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• Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Chess, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder

  Miguel Najdorf

  Play, Chess, Opponents

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• There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation.

  Alexander Kotov

  Mistake, Congratulations, Self

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• There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.

  Camille Paglia

  Historical, Ignorant, Judgment

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer . Thus two by two we wrangle and blunder about the earth, And that body we share we may not spare; but the Gods have need of mirth.

  James Branch Cabell

  Two, Perfection, Needs

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.6, eBookIt.com

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• Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better. Progress through irrational and astounding blunders, whose outrageousness bedwarfed the wildest cliches of romance, was what Kennaston found everywhere. All this, then, also was foreplanned, just as all happenings at Storisende had been, in his puny romance; and the puppets, here to, moved as they thought of their own volition, but really in order to serve a denouement in which many of them had not any personal part or interest...

  James Branch Cabell

  Race, Order, Romance

  "The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions". Book by James Branch Cabell, 1917.

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• A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work. Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude; and Phocion, you know, always suspected himself of some blunder when he was attended with the applauses of the populace.

  David Hume

  Wise, Men, Stronger

  David Hume, J. Y. T. Greig (2011). “The Letters of David Hume: 1727-1765”, p.305, Oxford University Press, USA

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• An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

  Aristophanes

  Law, Athens, Idiot

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• I do not believe indeed, I deem it a comic blunder to believe that the exercise of reason is sufficient to explain our condition and where necessary to remedy it, but I do believe that the exercise of reason is at all times necessary.

  Peter Medawar

  Believe, Exercise, Reason

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA

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