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• I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors.

  King James I

  Mother, War, Enemy

  On Roman Catholics, at the opening of parliament, 1604.

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• For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error.

  Anthony Braxton

  Creativity, Creative, Understanding

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• Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

  Frank Bruni

  College, Records, Magazines

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• When I think I've made an error, it can cause me a sleepless night. But that only happens rarely.

  Louis van Gaal

  Night, Thinking, Causes

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• Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

  George E. P. Box

  Science, Remember, Models

  George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons

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• In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)

  Alvin Plantinga

  Religious, Guarantees, Venture

  Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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• The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Parent

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.

  Sister Souljah

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through

  A. R. Ammons

  Grief, Loss, Savages

  A.R. Ammons (2013). “Basura y otros poemas”, p.20, LUMEN

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• I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.

  Tony Hoare

  Pain, Years, Temptation

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• My life is one long daily, hourly record of answered prayer. For physical health, for mental overstrain, for guidance given marvelously, for errors and dangers averted, for enmity to the Gospel subdued, for food provided at the exact hour needed, for everything that goes to make up life and my poor service. I can testify, with a full and often wonder-stricken awe, that I believe God answers prayer.

  Mary Slessor

  Prayer, Believe, Long

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• Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.

  David Hackett Fischer

  Memories, Grief, Past

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• Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.

  John Stuart Mill

  Truth, People, Evil

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.94

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• Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Development, Ascending

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.240

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• To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Choices, Investing, Rivals

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.351, Princeton University Press

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• Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As with every other element in fiction, it is a record of a writer’s decisions.

  Noy Holland

  Character, Decision, Fiction

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• If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Believe, Often Is, Missing

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• I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity — not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour — but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good.

  Robert Owen

  Country, Religious, Real

  Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.16

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• When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming to your land by order of his Majesty the King of Spain. Our Lord permitted that your pride should be brought low and that no Indian should be able to offend a Christian.

  Jared Diamond

  Christian, Kings, Pride

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.62, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt

  Lev Landau

  Doubt, Physics

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• It is error to believe that Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.

  Pope Pius IX

  Believe, Men, Light

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• A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated

  Haile Selassie

  Political, Growth, Progress

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• A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down. Some people have written the story of my life representing as truth what in fact derives from ignorance, error or envy; but they cannot shake the truth from its place, even if they attempt to make others believe it.

  Haile Selassie

  Strong, Rain, Believe

  "My Life and Ethiopia's Progress : The Autobiography of Emperor Haile Sellassie" by Haile Selassie, translated by Edward Ullendorff, 1976.

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• You’re not going to be a 1.000 hitter all the time. You’re going to be more wrong than right. You just have to correct your errors as quickly, as economically, as possible.

  Les Wexner

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• It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.

  Heather Mills

  Mother, Legs, Humans

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