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errors freely time
As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men. Gerrit Smith
errors obvious
Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20. Clint Eastwood
errors elude-us generations
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . . Carl Sagan
errors trial-and-error trials
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)
errors views rigidity
They (i. e., the Pythagoreans ) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
errors giving challenges
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.
errors speech opinion
Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion? Bertrand Russell
errors crank
More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.
errors commit ifs
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
cucumbers bread pieces
You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one. Compton MacKenzie
cucumbers
I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in. Jeff Goldblum
discworld ifs pens
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. Terry Pratchett
discworld
We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience
discworld small-gods chosen-one
And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!
discworld planets flats
As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies.
discworld hermits teach
You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.