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• Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her own way. People join together in order to win or defend this right. But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party or a State are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. No! The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities and in his right to these peculiarities.

  Vasily Grossman

  Lying, Struggle, Party

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• We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It’s in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark.

  Philip Roth

  Grace, Abuse, Redemption

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Nov 21, 2016

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• Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.

  Benjamin Carson

  Mistake, People, Way

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• I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Realizing, Consciousness, Deviation

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• Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Science, Moral Fiber

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

  Frank Herbert

  Assumption, Obsolete, Arise

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.82, Penguin

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• God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.

  Max Lucado

  Father, Eye, Defects

  Max Lucado (2012). “In the Eye of the Storm: Jesus Knows How You Feel”, p.20, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to be read in the sense usually called reading: the only way it seems to me to approach the novels that I write is to catch them in the same manner that one catches an illness.

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself.

  Edward Albee

  Running, Responsibility, Views

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.116, Da Capo Press

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• A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Inspiration, Working It

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.

  William Shakespeare

  Mirrors, Should, Remembered

  William Shakespeare, Suzanne Gossett (2004). “Pericles: Third Series”, p.182, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959). “A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ”

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• The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

  Carl Sagan

  Mistake, Ignorance, Long

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• It as true that normal people couldn't hear Gaspode speak, because dogs don't speak. It's a well know fact. ... Besides, almost all dogs don't talk. Ones that do are merely a statistical error, and can therefore be ignored.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, People, Facts

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• The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

  William Hazlitt

  World, Dread, Convinced

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.160

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• It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Hurt, Squirrels, People

  Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

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• Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

  Carl Sagan

  Perception, Optical Illusions, Sometimes

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.43, Ballantine Books

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• I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and immoveable, and that the earth is not at the center of same, and that it does move. Wishing however, to remove from the minds of your Eminences and all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion reasonably conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error, heresy, and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church. (Quoted in Shea and Artigas 194)

  Galileo Galilei

  Christian, Moving, Heart

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• People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  People, Sin, Love To Read

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.447, Faber & Faber

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• One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Burden, Shoulders

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, Lulu.com

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• Uh, what are you doing?” “Nothing much. Just erasing all of Calinda’s good grades and replacing them with incompletes. Eventually, the administrators will figure out what happened, but I’m making it look like a computer error. Still, I imagine she’ll get some nasty lectures from her profs and parents in the meantime.

  Jennifer Estep

  Parent, Looks, Doing Nothing

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Kiss of Frost”, p.146, Kensington Books

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• I want to be the victim of his errors.

  Marquis de Sade

  Want, Victim

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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• The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

  Orson Scott Card

  Essence, Training, Consequence

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.19, Macmillan

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• It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Believe, Hypocrite, Would Be

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1399, BookCaps Study Guides

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• he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking

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