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• Rectify is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.

  Ray McKinnon

  Might, Busy, Ifs

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• Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Knowledge, Sloth

  Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti, Samuel Johnson (1778). “A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences. To which is Added an English Grammar for the Use of the Italians”, p.324

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• The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Thinking, Judgment, Trouble

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.33

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• I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do it myself. So I instituted a suit against the city of Baltimore demanding that the city assessor be specifically ordered to assess the Church for its vast property holdings in the city, and that the city tax collector then be instructed to collect the taxes once the assessment has been made.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Assessment, Cities, Church

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• When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Creation, Our Relationship, Creator

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• Gore is nature's way of saying, "There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any way I can. SARS didn't work, but trust me, I'm cooking up something better. In the interim, please kill lots of yourselves.

  Douglas Coupland

  Cooking, Trying, Way

  "JPod". Book by Douglas Coupland, 2006.

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• Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Office, Doe

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.76, CCEL

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• We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.

  Orville Dewey

  May, Causes, Neglect

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• Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

  Frank Herbert

  Past, Self, Atrocities Committed

  "Children of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1976.

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• Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

  Julian Baggini

  Art, Self, Needs

  "Don't complain less - do it better" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2010.

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• All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

  Samuel Johnson

  Errors, Criticism, May

  Samuel Johnson (1782). “The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Extracted from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims”, p.176

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• Development is only necessary to rectify the ignorance of designers

  Keith Duckworth

  Ignorance, Development, Designer

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• If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

  John Milton

  Men, Thinking, Regulation

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• These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.

  George Eliot

  Stupid, Compassion, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• You don't realize that if you stop looking backwards craving the love and acceptance which you didn't receive from your parents, then you might open your eyes to what is available for you now. But you won't let go. If only you could see that looking back into an incomplete and imperfect past, with regret, blame, guilt or resentment is keeping you from the treasures that await you here now. The past has gone. You cannot rectify something that is no longer with you.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Letting Go, Regret, Eye

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• You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.

  Arthur Goldberg

  Real

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• For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.

  Joyce Brothers

  Mistake, Divorce, Facts

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• I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.

  Brian Bosworth

  Regret, Oklahoma, Embarrassment

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• Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

  Thomas Browne

  Age, Habit, Disposition

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4”, p.61

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• As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.

  John Gokongwei

  School, Boys, Goal

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• Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

  Mary McCarthy

  Mad, Records, Injustice

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a Speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Writing, Reality

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• If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.

  Gordon Allport

  Simple, Emotional, Light

  "The Nature of Prejudice" by Gordon Allport, (p. 9), 1954.

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• Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

  Frank Herbert

  Past, Balance, Atrocities

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.110, Penguin

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• He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration.

  Roger Chamberlain

  Vices, Reform, Restoration

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