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• Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.

  Murray Rothbard

  Punishment, Cop, Liability

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• The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.

  Robert K. Merton

  Science, Self, Events

  "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" (1948)

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• Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them.

  Edgar Cayce

  Karma, Opportunity, Giving

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• Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.

  Benjamin Rush

  Intelligent, Needs, Inquiry

  "Provisions of the Last Will and Testament of Dr. James Rush". 1869.

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• That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Doe, Made, Graves

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• We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

  Farley Mowat

  Important, Lasts, Minutes

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• There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist

  Charles Rennie Mackintosh

  Perfection, Icy, Stylist

  William Buchanan, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (2004). “Mackintosh's Masterwork: The Glasgow School of Art”, p.20, Rutgers University Press

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• Woman must be put back in her place. Man’s great error was to put woman on a pedestal, when she is far more at ease on her knees – where she belongs. … Woman must be reacquainted with truth and force. She must be reacquainted with truth through force. … She must be shown in no uncertain terms the absolute nature of the master/slave relationship endemic to the sexes.

  Boyd Rice

  Sex, Men, Pedestal

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• We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe, That's a good estimate with well-defined error bars, Scientists say it's true, but acknowledge that it may be refined, And with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you.

  Simon Singh

  Light, Years, Bars

  "Katie Melua's bad science" by Simon Singh, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2005.

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• There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Mistake, Russia, Development

  "Zerkalo", www.russialist.org. December 29, 2001.

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• Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory, are caused by either impatience, complacency, exhaustion, or all of the above.

  Pal Benko

  Ignorance, Player, Complacency

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• I'm more afraid of success than failure. Success makes us so sure of ourselves that we do not analyze the factors that lead us to our success. Instead, in failure there's an error that lurks that makes us reflect and in that process there is learning and that makes us better

  Jorge Valdano

  Process, Success Failure, Factors

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• So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

  Mika

  Heart, Past, Men

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• Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

  Bruce Mau

  Beautiful, Children, Fun

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• Let's call this then, only half facetiously, a new patristic, in which the intellectual is charged with the task not only to denounce error and unmask illusions, and not only to incarnate the mechanisms of new practices of knowledge, but also, together with others in a process of co-research, to produce a new truth. -- Commonwealth, 118

  Michael Hardt

  Practice, Intellectual, Together

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• Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly.

  Martin Fowler

  Team, Practice, Development

  "Continuous Integration". www.martinfowler.com. May 01, 2006.

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• A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.

  Robert Ruark

  Honesty, Men, Admitting

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• The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Enemy, May, Opponents

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1861). “History of civilization in England”, p.518

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• O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Spring, Moving, Men

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• It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Men, Brain, Feminism

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

  Carlos Mesa

  Reform, Cost, Bolivia

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Bolivian President Mesa". Interview with Geri Smith, www.bloomberg.com. July 5, 2004.

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• Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc., just because he wants speed.

  Erik Naggum

  Thinking, Etc, Causes

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• The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs.

  Samuel Warren Carey

  Fundamentals, Belief, Site

  Samuel Warren Carey (1988). “Theories of the Earth and Universe: A History of Dogma in the Earth Sciences”, p.5, Stanford University Press

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• Theres a little more margin for error this year. Last year, it felt like we had to win every game. That wasnt a lot of fun.

  Lance Berkman

  Fun, Winning, Years

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• There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations of all natural things [than mathematics]. [It interprets] all phenomena by the same language, as if to attest the unity and simplicity of the plan of the universe, and to make still more evident that unchangeable order which presides over all natural causes

  Joseph Fourier

  Simple, Order, Simplicity

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