The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.
Philip Hammond
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Thomas Paine
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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.
Lewis Thomas
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You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.
Henry Petroski
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There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George Washington
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I didn't go to no school for acting. I learned it all by trial and error.
Charlie Murphy
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Error is discipline through which we advance.
William Ellery Channing
DisciplineThroughErrorAdvance
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
Hannah Arendt
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Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
Barry Ritholtz
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Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
John Locke
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Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories.
Siri Hustvedt
TruthGreatThroughAssumeError
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
Michael Ledeen
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I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy.
Deborah Sampson
I AmPathsDoneWillCallError
Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.
Astro Teller
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.
Thomas Reid
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Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process.
James Redfield
IdeasProcessErrorMostTrial
The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers want - and thus are social indicators - when, in fact, they are what advertisers want. They're just advertising indicators.
Gloria Steinem
WomenAdvertisingThinkWantError
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
Ernest Renan
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Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
Billie Jean King
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