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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them. — Kimon Nicolaides
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language — Jean Rostand
Everyone on this planet needs to be made aware that for several years now I have met and keep meeting people who no longer have… — Ed McCabe
Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory. — Garry Kasparov
Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is… — Robert Fulghum
A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive. — Carol S. Dweck
I haven't seen American Sniper, but correct me if I'm wrong: An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real victim is his anguished soul. — Max Blumenthal
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing… — Diogenes
Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to… — Stephen Covey
Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are negative consequences when… — Stephen Covey
What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual… — David Ruelle
The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct. — Ralph Hartley
You are all perfectly correct in your implications that we would be safer if we stayed home in our rooms...But we would also be duller,… — Chris Raschka
When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making… — Jonas Salk
It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic… — Roger Mahony
In the end, a theory is accepted not because it is confirmed by conventional empirical tests, but because researchers persuade one another that the theory… — Fischer Black
As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to… — Trevanian
If you give a man the correct information for seven years, he may believe the incorrect information on the first day of the eighth year… — Unknown Author
Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And when a theory… — Alexei Panshin
Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator — Ludwig von Mises

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