"Man is fallible, but maybe men are less…" — Atul Gawande

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• To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. — Jorge Luis Borges
• Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to… — Gunter Grass
• Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to… — Louis Pasteur
• Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as… — Thomas Jefferson
• Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies. — Anatole France
• In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization… — George Washington
• As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will… — James Madison
• The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender… — Unknown Author
• Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them. — Maxwell Perkins
• If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another. — Unknown Author
• Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In… — Diane Ackerman
• Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries. — Alexander Hamilton

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