"History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error."
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"Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole."
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"Dark Error's other hidden side is truth."
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"There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth."
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"Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors."
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"There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed."
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"Critics ought never to be consulted, but while errors may yet be rectified or insipidity suppressed. But when the book has once been dismissed into the world, and can be no more retouched, I know not whether a very different conduct should not be prescribed, and whether firmness and spirit may not sometimes be of use to overpower arrogance and repel brutality."
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"There is no effort without error or shortcoming."
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"It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the direction of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward."
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"Delay is preferable to error."
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"What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?"
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"I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret."
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"Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error."
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"Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right."
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"We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error."
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"Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over"
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"If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions."
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"The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with more new ideas brought in - a trial and error system."
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"When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house."
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"Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness; and around, Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception-which is truth. A baffling and perverting carnal mesh Binds it, and makes all error: and to know Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without."
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