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Errors

«The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair»
«The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity»
«The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.»
Author: Georges Bidault | About: Errors
«No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.»
Author: John W. Scoville | About: Errors | Keywords: helpless, Seeds, The Seeds
«One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve»
Author: Paul Nitze | About: Errors | Keywords: human error
«The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true»
«There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men»
«No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes (Philosopher) | About: Errors | Keywords: obliges, persist
«The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution»
«Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.»