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• The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would seem to be a pursuit of the physician as harmless as it is indispensable. [But] it seemed irresistibly rational to certain minds that diseases should be as fully classifiable as are beetles and butterflies. This doctrine ... bore perhaps its richest fruit in the hands of Boissier de Sauvauges. In his Nosologia Methodica published in 1768 ... this Linnaeus of the bedside grouped diseases into ten classes, 295 genera, and 2400 species.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Butterfly, Air, Hands

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• The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption.

  John Stuart Mill

  Confused, Real, Science

  John Stuart Mill (1856). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.16

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• He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a Christian. This is so that he would not seem to require correction again and again and before two or three witnesses as though he were a Christian. He ought to be corrected for the very reason that he is not to be disputed with. In addition, this is said because a controversy over the Scriptures can, clearly, produce no other effect than help to upset either the stomach or the brain.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Sarcastic, Two

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• "The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Prayer, Flower, Turtles

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• Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction, talents enough to need no grace, goodness enough to need no progress, humility enough to need no repentance, devotion enough to need no quickening, strength sufficient without Your spirit; lest, standing still, I fall back for evermore.

  Eric Milner-White

  Fall, Teaching, Humility

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• What the market is doing is going through a correction, which it really needed. It's getting down to where it's reasonable.

  Ted Martinez

  Great Depression, Economic, Needed

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• If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.

  Howard Staunton

  Moving, Errors, Games

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• With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  Gold, Lenses, Noses

  Ingeborg Bachmann (1989). “Three Paths to the Lake: Stories”, Holmes & Meier Pub

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• Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market.

  Ron Chernow

  Long, Healthy, Excess

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• All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Simple, People

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “On Liberty and Utilitarianism”, p.234, Bantam Classics

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• Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Eight, Views, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and simple vocabulary curios; she scratched a few of them on the smooth red wall.

  Antonya Nelson

  Wall, Simple, Vocabulary

  Antonya Nelson (1999). “Nobody's Girl: A Novel”, Scribner

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• Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

  Harriet Martineau

  Law, Creative, Vices

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.168

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• Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers.

  Leah Price

  Book, Giants, Shoulders

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• I nearly broke out laughing when the wrteched soothsayer warned Caesar: "Beware the Ides of April." I thought it a miracle (and a relief) that no one in the udience had snickered or yelled out a correction. How could such an error be made by an actor? Had my ears deceived me?

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Errors, Laughing, Miracle

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• If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent, or deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still. Whose is so? Not mine; not thine; not his. But I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit? and we must not cease to tend to the correction of these flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Thinking, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1170, Delphi Classics

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• Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Funny, Yoga, Exercise

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• The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Mirrors, Practice

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• Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.

  James Randi

  Knowledge, Science, Discovery

  James Randi (1993). “The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer”

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• Each of you is a unique child of God. God knows you individually. He sends messages of encouragement, correction, and direction fitted to you and to your needs.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Encouragement, Children, Unique

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• Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

  Alvin Toffler

  Writing, Errors, Editors

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• The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Eye, Silence, Quiet

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4823, Delphi Classics

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• No one wants advice - only corroboration.

  John Steinbeck

  Entrepreneur, Advice, Mind Your Own Business

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.102, Penguin

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• Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.

  Ron Paul

  Unemployment, Financial, Federal Reserve

  "GOP Rivals Hit Obama on Foreign Policy Despite Bin Laden Killing, Hit Harder on Economy". www.foxnews.com. May 05, 2011.

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• Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Imbalance, Rooms, Gains

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