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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

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It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

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To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.

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For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.

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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

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The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not with a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament)

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A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated

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To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.

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Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.

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They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.

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Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

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The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

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Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

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We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

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Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

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Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.

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Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

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Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

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What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

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In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

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