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In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.

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A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.

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Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

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The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

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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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Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.

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Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

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We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

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Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

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It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

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

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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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The pleasing punishment that women bear.

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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

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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 fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

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Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

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We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

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