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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.

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It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

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To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

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I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.

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To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

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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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Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

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We do not find truth groveling through error.

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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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Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from the spirited mode of two centuries ago should certainly be permitted to follow without undue restraint a practice so harmless, so free from essential error, and so sanctioned by precedent, as that of employing in his poetical compositions the smooth and inoffensive allowable rhyme.

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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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I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

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One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.

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To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

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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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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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I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a fundamental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity theory collapses like a house of cards.

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All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

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