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Ralph Miller Artist
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"In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80 percent of the possessions are gained by rebounding and after an opponent's score. Twenty percent come from opponents's error, and only 5 percent of the possessions come from steals and interceptions. A study of the way ball possessions are gained makes it seem highly impractical to base pressure defense on interceptions and steals."

Games Basketball Errors
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things."

Men Land Errors
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers"

Cities Clothes Errors
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table."

Errors Everyday Profound
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature."

Men Errors Discovery
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it."

Men Errors Dignity
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind."

Fall Memories Errors
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected."

Firsts Facts Errors
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy."

Mind Eye Errors
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"It as true that normal people couldn't hear Gaspode speak, because dogs don't speak. It's a well know fact. ... Besides, almost all dogs don't talk. Ones that do are merely a statistical error, and can therefore be ignored."

People Dog Errors
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Thomas Aquinas Philosopher, Theologian
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"Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world."

Thinking Stars Errors
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Rebecca West Novelist, Journalist
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"It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it."

Literature Errors Monkeys
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Rebecca West Novelist, Journalist
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"... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel."

Eye Beautiful Errors
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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here."

Men Buddhism Errors
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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill."

Men Life Errors
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