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• I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh.

  Sylvia Plath

  Flesh, Gorgeous, Lost

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.136, Anchor

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• If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don’t do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mean, Doctors, Two

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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. What did Jesus know that enabled Him to do what He did? Here’s part of the answer: He knew the value of people. He knew that each human being is a treasure. And because He did, people were not a source of stress, but a source of joy.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Father, Stress

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.480, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Pride, Men

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• Error is the price we pay for progress.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Progress, Pay

  "Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology". Book by Alfred North Whitehead, 1929.

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• There is only one safeguard against error, and that is to be established in the faith; and for that, there has to be prayerful and diligent study, and a receiving with meekness the engrafted Word of God. Only then are we fortified against the attacks of those who assail us.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Receiving, Study, Meekness

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A.W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures - 1930-31, Volume 5 of 17”, p.73, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

  Dean Young

  Fall, Dumbasses, Height

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• Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.

  John Green

  Communication, Talking, Opposites

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• Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life! A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on!

  James Joyce

  Fall, Eye, Angel

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.199, Collector's Library

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  A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Mistake, Failing

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• It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Facts, Perceive

  Leonardo da Vinci, John Sidney Hawkins (1802). “A treatise on painting. To which is prefixed a new life of the author, by J.S. Hawkins”, p.203

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• Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Order, Special

  "Metaphysics". Book by Aristotle. Book XIII, 1078a.33,

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• That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in doing so, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Suits, Problem, Twisted

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• Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To attack the error that there will always be time for it later....Take the long-dreamed-of trip, learn this language, read those books, buy yourself this jewelry, spend a night in that famous hotel. Don't miss out on yourself. Bigger things are also part of that: to give up the loathed profession, break out of a hated milieu. Do what contributes to making you more genuine, moves you closer to yourself.

  Pascal Mercier

  Giving Up, Book, Moving

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• Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

  Jules Verne

  Fall, Lad, Built

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Journey to the Interior of the Earth”, p.177, Jules Verne

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• Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest; Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Children, Lying

  'Come not, when I am dead' (1850)

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• Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.

  C. S. Lewis

  Time, Sin, Fountain

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• With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

  George Eliot

  Time, Memories, Past

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.536, 谷月社

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• The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Long, Achievement

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• Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the bricks are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.

  Carlos Slim

  Business, Mistake, Technology

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• Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

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• The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

  Camille Paglia

  Beautiful, Block, Equality

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

  Thomas Russell

  Faith, Unbelief

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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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