"It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into."

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"It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into."

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"Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it."

Levon Helm, American Musician

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"Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

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"Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors."

Ludwig van Beethoven, German Composer

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"TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file."

Jon Postel, American Scientist

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"I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"How is an error possible in mathematics?"

Henri Poincare, French Mathematician

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"It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!"

Anna Garlin Spencer, American Minister

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"I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error."

Rene Descartes, French Mathematician

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"The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet."

Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Celebrity

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"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."

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"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."

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"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

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"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."

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"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

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"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"

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"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."

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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

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