Rectification Quotes

• Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Hope, Past, Ideas

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Divorce, Diplomatic Relations, Boundaries

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• If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

  Confucius

  Names, Language, Ifs

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification (both vengeance and forgiveness) will be taken over by oblivion.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Lying, Believe

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• My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.

  Vikas Swarup

  Book, Light, Voice

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• CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Peace, War, Boundaries

  "The Devil's Dictionary". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1906.

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• Earthly providence is a travesty of justice on any other theory than that it is a preliminary stage, which is to be followed by rectifications. Either there must be a future, or consummate injustice sits upon the throne of the universe. This is the verdict of humanity in all the ages.

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Justice, Humanity, Age

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