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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?
virtue cheapness
Cheapness is a great virtue. Bill Bryson
virtue
To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue. William Shakespeare
virtue
Patience is not a virtue! Alan Chadwick
virtue
There is a virtue in shamelessness. David Brooks
virtue crushed
Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed. Baroness Orczy
virtue thrifty ifs
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.
virtue scapes calumny
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
virtue
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. Bertolt Brecht
virtue used eternal-vigilance
The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible. Benjamin Netanyahu
avoided bill deficiency economy exact judicious loan necessary objects public rule satisfied till
It is a fundamental rule with me not to vote for a loan or tax bill till I am satisfied it is necessary for the public service, and then not if the deficiency can be avoided by lopping off unnecessary objects of expenditure or the enforcement of an exact and judicious economy in the public disbursements. John C. Calhoun
avoided claim flipped knew liberal main parties penny people property single three
I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats. Nick Clegg
avoided caused clubs goalkeeper huge hunt issue job paying price
We could have avoided all these problems. The clubs are paying the price for this. The intensification of the goalkeeper issue has become a huge problem. The hunt for the job has caused a lot of problems. Uli Hoeness
avoided certain sounds
It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges - I relish them - I think it's what make me tick, to a certain extent. Raymond Kelly
avoided great john movies struck
We were struck by how it avoided sentimentality, in the way the great John Huston movies did.
avoided bank came catalyst central drain investors market money period stock
When the central bank came out and said they're going to drain liquidity over a period of months, that was a catalyst for investors who have avoided the stock market to put some money back in.
avoided bad came good jeff job reasonably
I thought Jeff came in and did a reasonably good job for his team. He avoided the bad plays.
avoided bankers central pressures states united
Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system. Ben Bernanke
avoided catch low man stayed
We catch a lot of flak, ... They give us a lot of ribbing over that. I just say, 'I'm just the low man on the totem pole.' I don't feel responsible. I don't know if we would have stayed if we would have avoided that or not. George Davis