"The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss."

Error, Precision, Failure, Action, Mistake

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"The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss."

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"There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance."

George Gillespie, Scottish Theologian

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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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"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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"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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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."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error."

Moliere, French Playwright

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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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"We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors."

Norman Vincent Peale, American Clergyman

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"There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it."

Lakhdar Brahimi, Algerian Public Servant

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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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"Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?"

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"Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society."

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"The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose."

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"People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things."

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"To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them."

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"Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information."

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