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By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one… — Roald Dahl
I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated. — Lewis Hine
Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered, — Zac Posen
Walking back from the convention site I chatted with a normal Bostonian for several blocks -- who must have identified me through our covert system… — Ann Coulter
It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I… — Thomas Jefferson
Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by… — Wendell Berry
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled. — Xunzi
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. — George Henry Lewes
One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go to… — Frederick Douglass
If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better… — Robert Greene
To the shepherds alone was given all power to teach, to judge, to direct; on the faithful was imposed the duty of following their teaching,… — Pope Leo XIII
He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting… — Geoff Dyer
Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. — Ayn Rand
Letâ€™s be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected. — Valery Giscard d'Estaing
And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it… — Sanford I. Weill
A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his… — Haile Selassie
As you consider your own life, are there things that you need to change? Have you made mistakes that still need to be corrected? If… — C. Scott Grow
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a… — Norbert Wiener
Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and experience as to… — Irwin Stone
But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper… — David Hume

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