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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
Author:
Warren Zevon
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The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
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Thomas Watson
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If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.
Author:
Stand Watie
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If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
Author:
Bill Walsh
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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.
Author:
Lewis Thomas
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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!
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Anna Spencer
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My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.
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Ayrton Senna
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Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.
Author:
Lee Scott
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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
Author:
Donald Rumsfeld
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I did it the stupid way, through trial and error.
Author:
Jake Roberts
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To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.
Author:
Rodrigo Rato
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How is an error possible in mathematics?
Author:
Henri Poincare
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A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.
Author:
Henri Poincare
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Author:
Alan Perlis
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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.
Author:
Vilfredo Pareto
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To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.
Author:
Donald Norman
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One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
Author:
Paul Nitze
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It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!
Author:
Robert Musil
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If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.
Author:
William Mulholland
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
Author:
Moliere
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Author:
James Madison
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
Author:
Billie King
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The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.
Author:
David Keene
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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
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Andrew Jackson
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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
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Horace
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No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.
Author:
Levon Helm
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Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
Author:
Jan Hartog
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Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.
Author:
Arthur Guiterman
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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
Author:
William Godwin
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There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
Author:
George Gillespie
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Author:
John Galbraith
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No one who lives in error is free.
Author:
Euripides
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I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
Author:
Rene Descartes
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Obscurity is the realm of error.
Author:
Luc Clapier
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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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Pure innovation is more gross than error.
Author:
George Chapman
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.
Author:
Michael Burgess
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There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
Author:
Lakhdar Brahimi
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Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.
Author:
Cecilia Bartoli
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Author:
Hannah Arendt
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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
Author:
Louis Aragon
