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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?
earth earthly eternal happiness higher individual knowledge life none object purpose serve sustained
Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race. Ellen Key
earth events global means outside planet solar though threatened within
The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events within our solar system, and still more outside it, that could make Earth uninhabitable by humans. Paul Johnson
earth bows narnia
You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content. C. S. Lewis
earth monkeys apes
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.
earth ruins ifs
If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go
earth throw
That would be the stupidest thing on Earth we could do. It would throw us back into the 1970s. John Felmy
earthquake half safe source
Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water. Marcus Samuelsson
earthquake money plays raising surprises teaches victims
My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in Nepal. Every day she surprises me and teaches me something. Patti Smith
earth fortune
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure! Petrarch
shapes lines looks
If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line. Benoit Mandelbrot
shapes would-be far-away
There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
shapes fancy
so full of shapes is fancy William Shakespeare
shapes action forecasts
It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
shapes rooms mold
The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty. Charles Dickens
shapes lines pages
To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines. Edith Wharton
shapes matter canvas
No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes... David Hockney
shapes helping help-me
Competing helps me to polish my shape. Blanka Vlasic
shapes silhouettes variation
There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.