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William Shakespeare, A Comedy of Errors

"The pursuit of happiness" is an American myth. The ideologies and governments of this century that promised happiness, have left people with more material possessions, but less psychological well-being. Many of the citizens are emotionally bankrupt and unhappy. The demands of life in our current socioeconomic system require that we keep running and running with little or no breaks....Like their parents, most of the young professionals will drift through life racing for the "American Dream", going through very expensive trial-and-error lessons and struggling to achieve happiness and fulfillment. – Med Jones
A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages. – Anonymous
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other. – Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward. – Thomas Huxley
It is not the critic that counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or the doer of deeds could have them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the Arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but he who does actually strive to do the deed who knows the great devotion who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again. Because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, he who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat". – Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt, "Man in the Arena" Speech given April 23, 1910
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character. – Dr. Dale E. Turner
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error. – Seneca
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error. – Alvin Toffler
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. – Henri Frdric Amiel
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. – Sigmund Freud
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. – Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. – Carl Gustav Jung
Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. – Johann von Goethe
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. – John Kenneth Galbraith
Hence, a devout Christian must avoid astrologers and all impious soothsayers, especially when they tell the truth, for fear of leading his soul into error by consorting with demons and entangling himself with the bonds of such association. – Saint Augustine
'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. – E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. – Isaac Asimov
A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth. – Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. – Orlando A. Battista
An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy. – Benjamin Stolberg
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. – Gen. Peyton C. March
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. – Alvin Toffler
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error. – Weisert

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