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• The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

  Thomas Russell

  Faith, Unbelief

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• Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.

  Paul Bowles

  Years, Another Year, Kind

  Paul Bowles (1979). “Collected stories, 1939-1976”

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• The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

  Nick Harkaway

  Swings, Tree, Branches

  "The Gone-Away World". Book by Nick Harkaway, June 2008.

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• Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Giving, Wish, Satisfaction

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.59, Kshetra Books

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• Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.

  Daniel Quinn

  Civilization, Trials, Way

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.110, Bantam

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• We do not find truth groveling through error.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Groveling

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• Most inexperienced cooks believe, mistakenly, that a fine cake is less challenging to produce than a fine souffle or mousse. I know, however, that a good cake is like a good marriage: from the outside, it looks ordinary, sometimes unremarkable, yet cut into it, taste it, and you know that it is nothing of the sort. It is the sublime result oflong and patient experience, a confection whose success relies on a profound understanding of compatibilities and tastes; on a respect for measurement, balance, chemistry and heat; on a history of countless errors overcome.

  Julia Glass

  Believe, Cutting, Cake

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• No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.

  William Carlos Williams

  History, May, Facts

  William Carlos Williams (1956). “In the American Grain”, p.190, New Directions Publishing

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• When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Regret, Mistake, Judgement

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• Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time.

  Michael Chabon

  Baseball, Loss, Games

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• Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

  Barry Hughart

  Careers, Way, Empty

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• Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

  Linus Pauling

  Religion, Morality, Do Unto Others

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• Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.

  Ayn Rand

  Purpose, May, Form

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.472, Hamilton Books

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• And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for the advantage of man? Is not reason in error as regards advantage? Does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being? Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Perhaps Love, Suffering

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• Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah was fed twice and given a good chance to sleep. Only then, and very gently, did God confront him with his error. This is always God's way. Having made us as human beings, He respects our humanness and treats us with integrity. That is, He treats us true to the truth of who we are. It is human beings and not God who have made spirituality impractical.

  Os Guinness

  Integrity, Sleep, Humanness Is

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• A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

  Rene Daumal

  Knives, Blades

  Rene Daumal (2004). “Mount Analogue”, p.37, The Overlook Press

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• I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.

  Warren Zevon

  Years, Physicians, Might

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• Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

  Salman Rushdie

  Lying, Work Out, Path

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• None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

  Bertrand Russell

  Vagueness, Belief

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.129, Psychology Press

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• The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as it was tens of thousands of years before the back. But typical events in galactic dynamics occupy tens of millions of years, so the error in thinking of an image of a galaxy as frozen in one moment of time is small.

  Carl Sagan

  Thinking, Light, Years

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.293, Ballantine Books

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• Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Opposites, Upset, World

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• It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.

  Charles Dickens

  Regret, Night, Long

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.577

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• But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Mistake, Gross, Grows

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.76, Macmillan

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• The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular engaging sight, nor had they been since he had made the error of looking into his soul. It had indeed been an error. It had been late one night-- of course. It had been a difficult day-- of course. There had been soulful music playing on the ship's sound system-- of course. And he had, of course, been slightly drunk. In other words, all the usual conditions that bring on a bout of soul searching had applied, but it had, nevertheless, clearly been an error.

  Douglas Adams

  Night, Light, Sight

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• A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Age, Degrees

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