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The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking. Charles Lamb

Beauty, Shine, Soul, Body, Appearance

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. Charles Darwin

Service, Good, Truth, Better, Sometimes

Try on 100 different hats if you can, until you find the one that suits you best. It's a trial and error thing. Philip Treacy

Best, Suits, You, Try, Find, Hats

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. Isaac Asimov

Great, Value, Thought, Rise, May, Subtle

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. H. L. Mencken

Life, Truth, Arts, Only, Out, Exposed

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Pope John Paul II

Science, Religion, False, Superstition

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. Thomas Hobbes

Man, Law, Own, Him, Nor, Becomes

I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error. Stephen Hawking

Service, Health, Great, Care, Me, Debate

For the longest time, I was trying to be DJ Shadow, I think. But I slowly developed my own style. It was trial and error, for sure. Washed Out

Time, Shadow, Style, Think, Trying, DJ

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. Francis Bacon

Truth, Confusion, More, Than, Readily

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. Victor Hugo

Beautiful, Truth, Truth Is, Rise, Rare

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. Thomas Merton

Truth, God, Myself, Truth Is, Step

I am convinced that, because the criminal justice system is run by humans, it is naturally subject to human error. There is no rational basis to believe that this same type of human error will not infect capital murder trials. Tom Price

Justice, I Am, Believe, Run, Trials

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. Anais Nin

Death, Losing, Suffering, Chance, Giving

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet. Ayrton Senna

Happen, Something, Biggest

Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart. Michio Kaku

Aging, You, Why, Cells, Repair, Level

You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing. Henry Petroski

Design, You, Say, Human, Because, Almost

Humans have 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can't afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we've developed doesn't make mistakes. Walter O'Brien

Time, Mistakes, Wrong, Human, Afford

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. Bertrand Russell

Judgment, Fact, Hallucination, Based

A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error. Isoroku Yamamoto

Faith, Man, Time, Purpose, Sometimes, He

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Fool, Person, Only, Every

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Live, Men, Me, Wish, Belief, I Wish

Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death. Gary Johnson

Death, People, End, Death Penalty, You

Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off. Warren Zevon

Me, Say, Physician, First, Going, Years

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. George Ryan

Death, Support, Think, Death Penalty

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away. Arthur Schopenhauer

Free, Person, Away, Take, Give

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