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• Commandments and covenants of God are like navigational instructions from celestial heights and will lead us safely to our eternal destination. It is one of beauty and glory beyond understanding. It is worth the effort. It is worth making decisive corrections now and then staying on course.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Effort, Understanding, Covenant

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• The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

  Richard Whately

  Abuse, Rebuilding, Revolution

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.71

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• The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction.

  Che Guevara

  Mistake, Elements, Enthusiasm

  "Socialism and Man in Cuba". www.marxists.org. March 12, 1965.

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• Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die. It therefore has no reality check. And it is therefore uniquely armored against criticism, questioning, and self-correction. It is uniquely armored against anything that might stop it from spinning into extreme absurdity, extreme denial of reality… and extreme, grotesque immorality.

  Greta Christina

  Reality, Voice, Self

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• Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

  Hosea Ballou

  Discovery, Parent, Brevity Of Life

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• But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.

  Bruce Nauman

  Mean, Feelings, Tasks

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• Women should be women and not babies that need petting and correction all the time. I know we like to be appreciated but if we do not get all the appreciation which we think is our due, what matters? We know the Lord has laid high responsibility upon us, and there is not a wish or desire that the Lord has implanted in our hearts in righteousness but will be realized, and the greatest good we can do to ourselves and each other is to refine and cultivate ourselves in everything that is good and ennobling to qualify us for those responsibilities.

  Eliza R. Snow

  Baby, Appreciation, Heart

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• Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.

  Randy Alcorn

  Self, Worry, Suffering

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• The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

  John Jewel

  Vices, Example, Knowledge Of God

  John Jewel (1848). “The Works of John Jewel, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury”, p.316

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• There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Past, Keys, Massacres

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• An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.

  Christilot Hanson-Boylen

  Horse, Wire, Unseen

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• A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Abuse, Reform, Revolution

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 672-73, speech in the House of Commons, on the Reform Bill, 1922.

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• This is following through on the market correction and a lot of mixed emotions, ... We had players who were with us in '03 who helped us win a championship. It's a business, but we've had a lot of history with a lot of these guys. The recognition of what they've done is not going to be lost, but the reality of the situation is the reality of the situation.

  Larry Beinfest

  Winning, Player, Reality

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• Forgiveness is an inner correction that lightens the heart. It is for our peace of mind first. Being at peace, we will now have peace to give to others, and this is the most permanent and valuable gift we can possibly give.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Forgiveness, Peace, Heart

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• As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it's equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Successful, Errors, Important

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• The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil.

  Larry Osborne

  Running, Organization, Church

  Larry Osborne (2010). “Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page”, p.83, Harper Collins

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• Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Men, New Experiences

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Life, Hero, Men

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• With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches and wealthy state thought they might do what they listed. And doubtless he spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all men, as well rich as poor, to the great shame of no small number of men nowadays. Whereas many we see so addicted to the pleasing of great and rich men, that in the meantime they have no regard to the meaner sort of poor people, whom Christ hath bought as dearly as the other.

  John Foxe

  Men, Small Numbers, People

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• I'm not putting any of this well. I am not and never have been an intellectual. I am not articulate, and the subjects that I am trying to describe and discuss are beyond my abilities. I am trying, however, the best I can, and will go back over this as carefully as possible when I am finished, and will make changes and corrections whenever I can see a way to make what I'm discussing clearer or more interesting without fabricating anything.

  David Foster Wallace

  Interesting, Intellectual, Trying

  "All That" by David Foster Wallace, www.newyorker.com. December 14, 2009.

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• If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience, and examine thy heart: if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction: make use of both; so shalt thou distil honey out of gall, and out of an open enemy create a secret friend.

  Francis Quarles

  Home, Heart, Enemy

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.76

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• Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection.

  Amy Dickinson

  Friends, Reflection, Doors

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• It is Chairman Mao who should be held primarily responsible for the Great Leap Forward. But it didn't take him long - just a few months - to recognize his mistake, and he did so before the rest of us and proposed corrections. And in 1962, when because of some other factors those corrections had not been fully carried out, he made a self-criticism. But the lessons were not fully drawn, and as a result the "Cultural Revolution" erupted.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Mistake, Self, Long

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• ... all progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority ... without the huge body of traditional knowledge, accurate and inaccurate together, there would be nothing even to correct. Progress is not made in spite of authority, but by means of it.

  Margaret Benson

  Mean, Together, Progress

  Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faith”

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• While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Anxiety, Finishing, Unnecessary

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