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• It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mistake, Tasks, Critical

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• The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Two, Long

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win…life is self-correcting.

  Deepak Chopra

  Winning, Self, Order

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?”, p.97, Random House

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• Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts.

  Iain Pears

  Philosophy, Teaching, Men

  Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.237, Penguin

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• I want considerate people to listen to the voice of Aikido. It is not for correcting others; it is for correcting your own mind. This is Aikido. This is the mission of Aikido and should be your mission.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Voice, People, Mind

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• I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is that the two have always been together in my life, one resonating in the other, sometimes ironically, sometimes nostalgically, most often each correcting, and commenting on, the other. Each can seem like my absolutely first language, but neither is.

  Edward Said

  Two, Doubt, Together

  Edward W. Said (2013). “Out Of Place: A Memoir”, p.1931, Granta Books

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• One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self correcting his own material moral, and spiritual defects, and evil. The black man need to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Respect, Ghetto

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• People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them. But I'm much more even-keeled and subdued and relaxed than Joey Tribbiani.

  Matt LeBlanc

  People, Compliment, Call Me

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• Every court of criminal justice must have the power of correcting the greatest and dangerous of all abuses of the forms of law - that of the protracted imprisonment of the accused, untried, perhaps not intended ever to be tried, it may be, not informed of the nature of the charge against him, or the name of the accuser.

  David Hume

  Law, Names, Justice

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• Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice.

  Suzy Kassem

  Heart, Views, Justice

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

  Carl Sagan

  Self, Perfect, Tools

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• Many times in life, those who do the most correcting, need the most correcting.

  Orrin Woodward

  Needs

  Twitter post from Jun 30, 2016

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• Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

  Lawrence Wright

  Self, Journalism, Flawed

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• The market is in the process of correcting itself.

  George W. Bush

  Process

  George W. Bush's Speech at the Economic Club of New York, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 14, 2008.

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• The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly, and especially in the US, it seems that the political system is more akin to "one dollar one vote" than to "one person one vote". Rather than correcting the market failures, the political system was reinforcing them.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Meaningful, Real, Years

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• This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in a brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in Chapters II and III) on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. The numbers of the sections may be used as references in correcting manuscript.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Book, Practice, Numbers

  William Strunk Jr. (2015). “Elements of Style”, Lulu.com

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• All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

  Henri Bergson

  Faith, Giving, Poetry

  Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

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• A believer to another believer is like two hands, one washes the other (correcting each other).

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Hands, Two, Believer

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• Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who are supposed to understand Bach (I have no pretensions to understand better, but I do think that sometimes I can guess).

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Philosophy, Mistake

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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• But that was my very first time on a set and they said, you know, you have to stand on a mark. That little piece of tape that you stand on is called a mark. I kept correcting them and telling them that my name was Michael and not Mark. They said, 'No, no honey.' I was a little green.

  Michael Weatherly

  Names, Tape, Pieces

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• A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Design, Good Man

  Matthew Henry, Thomas Scott (1835). “A commentary upon the holy Bible: Job to Salomon's song”, p.82

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• Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

  Allan Sandage

  Self, Progress, Process

  Interview with Alan Lightman, www.aip.org. January 11, 1989.

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• Coaching to me is correcting mistakes and trying to get your players to think. If raising your voice occasionally gets them to think better, then that's called coaching.

  Steve Spurrier

  Mistake, Player, Thinking

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• Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.

  T. S. Eliot

  Creative, Toil, Sifting

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• There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.

  Carl Sagan

  Simple, Self, Perfect

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.362, Ballantine Books

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