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• If I "try" to play, I fail; if I force the play, I crush it; if I race, I trip. Any time I stiffen or brace myself against some error or problem, the very act of bracing would cause the problem to occur. The only road to strength is vulnerability.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Crush, Race, Play

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.64, Penguin

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• How do you remember everything from different books when you are still writing the HP series? As obsessive fans will tell you, I do slip up! Several classrooms move floors mysteriously between books and these are the least serious continuity errors! Most of the fansites will point you in the direction of my mistakes. But the essentials remain consistent from book to book because the story has been plotted for a long time and it is clear in my mind.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mistake, Moving, Book

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• If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.

  Pope Pius XI

  Christian, Religious, Catholic

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• To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Forever, Desire, Immortality

  1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.41 (translated by E F J Payne).

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• We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Reason, Said, Prove

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• We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Tiny, Trouble, Imagine

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.28, Advaita Ashrama

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• Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Discovery, Joy, Labyrinth

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• It is not that the intellect sometimes misunderstands. Rather, the intellect always misunderstands. It is not that the intellect sometimes errs, it is that the intellect is the error.

  Rajneesh

  Sometimes, Intellect

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• Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the Federal Government,' the Court tries to palm off the pertinent statutory phrase as "inartful drafting.' This Court, however, has no free-floating power 'to rescue Congress from its drafting errors.'

  Antonin Scalia

  Mean, Government, Effort

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.239, Regnery Publishing

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• It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Wise, Opponents

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• There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity.

  Leonard Read

  Prosperity, Greater

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• The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

  Herodotus

  Loss, Undertakings, Begets

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• The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

  Rollo May

  Evil, Looks, Faces

  Rollo May (1999). “Freedom and Destiny”, p.227, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.

  Carl Sagan

  Giving, Challenges, Rewards

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.58, Ballantine Books

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• all of us feel special inside to where we feel as if we are the best, unique, or blessed. of course this is true, our error in this thought process is we forget that all the other people and all living things are just as special as we feel about ourselve.

  Jamie Foxx

  Blessed, Unique, People

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• The most difficult days have been the ones I've had to spend correcting a mistake. We're all human, and we make errors in spite of the pains we take not to. It's important to take ownership of the situation and to work to make it right.

  Mark Mason

  Pain, Mistake, Important

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer is like a cloud, pushed all around, always dependent on the exterior world. That's what I sometimes feel as a pain and an error.

  Edouard Boubat

  Morning, Pain, Flower

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• I still believe in the power of forgiveness. I believe in the power of redemption. Today I manned up and tried to accept responsibility for the errors of my ways. And I still believe in the resurrection.

  Jesse Jackson, Jr.

  Believe, Responsibility, Redemption

  "Jesse Jackson Jr. going to prison; says he 'manned up'" by Dan Merica, Larry Lazo and Leslie Bentz, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2013.

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• I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for me. I was self-taught the hard way, by trial and error.

  George Rodger

  Cutting, Self, Trial And Error

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• You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up & accomplishments disappear. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

  Mike Tyson

  Accomplishment, Meditation, Taught

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• If you're gay or lesbian, it's a biological error that inhibits you from relating normally to the opposite sex.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Sex, Gay, Opposites

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• I that please some, try all, both joy and terror
  Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Joy, Trying

  William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.244, A&C Black

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• I think of the universe as the body of God, and the creative capability we see and can exhibit as the mind of God. I will use this phrase to describe our system, that it's a creative, intelligent, self-organizing, learning trial-and-error, interactive, non-locally interconnected evolutionary system.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Intelligent, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I have gotten over feeling badly. We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push forward we will make plenty more.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Feelings, Would Be, Too Much

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• Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of money. What is also needed is a temple of shame squared for things you didn't do that would have made you rich. Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn't remind you. Why not celebrate stupidities in both categories?

  Charlie Munger

  Mistake, Reality, Stupidity

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