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• We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Mood, Prophet, Found

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• In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile - upward and downward - at the peak of a crisis.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Gold, Credit, Causes

  "Gold prices are heading towards $1,000" by Nouriel Roubini, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2013.

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• We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Love, Daughter, Common Sense

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• The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.

  Sigmund Freud

  Reality, Wish, Force

  Sigmund Freud (1973). “Abstracts of the Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Today's world needs change, alteration, renewal, and corrections of errors. It needs new ideas, new approaches, methods, plans, procedures, and new ways of doing things. Maybe you should think of going-literally or symbolically- to a circus today, where you'll see stunts you never dreamed possible. The novelty and originality there may stimulate what you need more of in this life. Have the daring to take a flight for the idea you believe in!

  Wilferd Peterson

  Believe, Thinking, Errors

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• Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.

  Ernst Mach

  Men, Light, Doubt

  Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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