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• How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Persistence, Justice, Diversity

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• It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, they may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal functions, but it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this that they may be altogether dispensed with in reference to their effects; and It is a question whether, if we had no tea and no coffee, the popular instinct would not seek for and discover the means of replacing them.

  Isabella Beeton

  Coffee, Mean, Animal

  Isabella Beeton (2006). “Mrs Beeton's Household Management”, p.825, Wordsworth Editions

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• I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wine, Thinking, Luxury

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.100, Cosimo, Inc.

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• After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready to abandon it at the slightest provocation. should this certainty be lacking, we must tell ourselves that nothing is accomplished in warfare without daring; that the nature of war certainly does not let us see at all times where we are going; that what is probable will always be probable though at the moment it may not seem so; and finally, that we cannot be readily ruined by a single error, if we have made reasonable preparations.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Preparation

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• Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is not in that category. I want an industrial world where people are allowed to make errors. Because human creativity has to do with being allowed to make errors. We want an error-friendly environment.

  Hans-Peter Durr

  Creativity, Acceptance, Technology

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• In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80 percent of the possessions are gained by rebounding and after an opponent's score. Twenty percent come from opponents's error, and only 5 percent of the possessions come from steals and interceptions. A study of the way ball possessions are gained makes it seem highly impractical to base pressure defense on interceptions and steals.

  Ralph Miller

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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• Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

  Paul Brown

  Sports, Football, Team

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• The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

  Walter Lippmann

  Order, Society, Principles

  Walter Lippmann (1959). “The Public Philosophy”

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• There were grammatical errors even in his silence.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Silence

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have never studied or experienced the realities of war, but also professional soldiers frequently fall into the error. But the principles of warfare as I learned them at West Point remain unchanged.

  John J. Pershing

  Military, War, Fall

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• The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, War, Study

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• Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Ambition, Tears

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• Where there is much freedom there is much error.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Freedom

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• Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

  Francis Picabia

  Knowledge, Youth, Ancient

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• The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and need for ultimate self-control, one's nerve might fail and cause an error. That's irony of it - that fear could short-circiut skill, that one would die as a direcy result of being afraid to die.

  Royal Robbins

  Climbing, Self, Skills

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• Let me not to the marriage of true minds
  Admit impediments. Love is not love
  Which alters when it alteration finds,
  Or bends with the remover to remove:
  O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
  That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
  It is the star to every wandering bark,
  Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
  Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
  Within his bending sickle's compass come:
  Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
  But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
  If this be error and upon me proved,
  I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Love You, Taken

  Sonnet 116

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• Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Wise, Baseball

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• There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Age, Prejudice, Aging

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.183

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• The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Gossip, Mind

  Letter to John Norvell, June 11, 1807.

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• The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

  Anatole France

  Heart, Emotional, Feelings

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• Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead; they doubt it enough to notice the errors and faults so they can step forward and create the new replacement theory. If you believe too much you'll never notice the flaws; if you doubt too much you won't get started. It requires a lovely balance.

  Richard Hamming

  Believe, Science, Greatness

  "'You and Your Research' - 1986 Speech by Dr. Richard W. Hamming". www.valueinvestingworld.com. September 21, 2009.

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• Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.

  Janet Morris

  Risk, Survival, Haste

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• The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Beauty, Appreciation, Shining

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

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• The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

  Oscar Wilde

  Nature, Growth, Quality

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1062, Wordsworth Editions

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• What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

  T. S. Eliot

  Self, Judging, Criticism

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