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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?
enemy i-can whole
I can't afford a whole new set of enemies. Cecil Beaton
enemy women worst
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination. Patrick Kavanagh
enemy fight looked soviet union warsaw
We were going to fight an enemy that was a symmetric threat, and they looked a lot like us -- the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. Steven Blum
enemy forces humiliated love operations return safely voters
Voters love these kind of operations in which the enemy is humiliated and our forces return safely to base. Nahum Barnea
enemy friend
Who is mighty? One who makes an enemy into a friend
enemy historic
will not let its historic enemy live in its heartland. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
enemy
Your enemy's enemy is your friend Becca Fitzpatrick
enemy chiefs safety-and-security
Security is the chief enemy of mortals. William Shakespeare
enemy hate skill
I hate to say this, but you don't have the skill to be my enemy
enquiry worth-living
Life without enquiry is not worth living. Socrates
enquiry results ends
The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end. James Hutton
enquiry foundation essentials
The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry. Max Planck