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• To me no profitable speech sounds ill.

  Sophocles

  Sound, Speech, Ill

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• Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good.

  Isocrates

  Men, Risk, Favors

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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• Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices had evolved over the years into a principle: The best government is the one that gets out of the way. The attacks on the Taj and the Oberoi, in which executives and socialites died, had served as a blunt correction. The wealthy now saw that their security could not be requisitioned privately. They were dependent on the same public safety system that ill served the poor.

  Katherine Boo

  School, Years, Cities

  Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity”, p.216, Random House

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• A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice.

  Mark Shurtleff

  Utah, Html, Justice

  Mark L. Shurtleff ‏ @MarkShurtleff, twitter.com. June 18, 2010.

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• One of the frustrating things for people who miss the first rally in a bull market is that they wait for the big correction and it never comes. The market just keeps climbing and climbing. It feeds on itself in frenzied fashion and propels prices considerably higher for six months or so, and sometimes longer.

  Martin Zweig

  Fashion, Climbing, People

  Martin Zweig (2009). “Martin Zweig Winning on Wall Street”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.

  Diogenes

  Self, Should, Criticize

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• But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Running, Feet

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 15, 2003.

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• Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make it right for the people they have harmed. [...] Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night.

  Piper Kerman

  Revenge, Night, People

  "Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison". Book by Piper Kerman, July 11, 2013.

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• He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

  Julia Quinn

  Eight, Pigs, Rabbits

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• I've made so many mistakes, so many corrections. I'm so far from perfect so many imperfections. But I'm a go getta I get up and go get it, so if you preaching prosperity, i wanna hit it.

  Curtis Jackson

  Mistake, Perfect, Prosperity

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• of all the unusual features of Stargirl, this struck me as the most remarkable. Bad things did not stick to her. Correction: her bad things did not stick to her. If we were hurt, if we were unhappy or otherwise victimized by life, she seemed to know about it, and to care, as soon as we did. But bad things falling on her -- unkind words, nasty stares, foot blisters -- she seemed unaware of. I never saw her look in a mirror, never heard her complain. All of her feelings, all of her attentions flowed outward. She had no ego.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Hurt, Fall, Mirrors

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• He sometimes felt that life was something that had already risen, and all of this, the Jackson Pollack of spring, summer, and fall, the vague refrigeration and tinfoiled sky of wintertime, was just a falling, really, originward, in a kind of correction, as if by spritual gravity, towards the wiser consciousness--or consciousnessless, maybe; could gravity trick itself like that?--of death. It was a kind of movement both very slow and very fast; there was both too much and not enough time to think.

  Tao Lin

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Tao Lin (2007). “Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel”, Melville House Pub

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• He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts were familiar to him, many times had he turned them over this way and that, first shuddering at the probability of annihilation, then welcoming it, almost rejoicing in it. Suddenly a peculiarly familiar agitation took possession of him... He mused awhile, sat down at the table, and wrote down the following lines in his sacred copy-book, without a single correction.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Book, Fall, Reflection

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.870, Delphi Classics

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• It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

  Philip Sidney

  Grace, Prison, Excellent

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.11

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• I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

  William Weld

  Change, Thinking, Two

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• I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?

  Claire Messud

  Book, Should, Measuring

  Claire Messud (2015). “The Emperor's Children: Picador Classic”, p.463, Pan Macmillan

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• You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.

  Wendell Berry

  Men, Community, Progress

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.

  Janis Karpinski

  Responsibility, July, Training

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• When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Evil, Voting, Principles

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• The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.

  Jaime Lerner

  Believe, Taken, Cities

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• I believe the time has come to acknowledge that the practice of routine circumcision rests on the absurd premise that the only mammal in creation born in the condition that requires immediate surgical correction is the human male.

  Thomas Szasz

  Believe, Practice, Mammals

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• Now, what does a vampire do with a computer? Keep track of investments? Send e-mail to other vampires as you all plot to take over the world?” “I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia making corrections to the entries of historical figures I’ve known.” I blinked at him. “Really?” “No, Kitty. That was a joke.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Track, Historical, Vampire

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• 'It’s, like, one of them drug dealer boats,' Vic says, looking through his magic sight. 'Five guys on it. Headed our way.' He fires another round. 'Correction. Four guys on it.' Boom. 'Correction, they’re not headed our way anymore.' Boom. A fireball erupts from the ocean two hundred feet away. 'Correction. No boat.'

  Neal Stephenson

  Ocean, Fire, Sight

  "Snow Crash". Book by Neal Stephenson, Chapter 51, 1992.

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• THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Hurt, Years, Keys

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.563, Macmillan

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• With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

  Stephen Lang

  Telescopes, Myopic, Stories

  "'Terra Nova is the Hubble Telescope of television,' says Terra Nova star who means that in a good way" by Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. March 09, 2012.

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