- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corrected Quotes
On facing mistakes honestly and the discipline it takes to fix them.
This collection draws on old philosophical ideas about human nature needing correction through teaching and ritual. It also touches on Bad habits and how attention to facts, more than belief, is what actually corrects them.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
War and peace type products... cannot be added into a national product total until the differences in the valuation due to differences in the institutional mechanisms that determine their respective market prices are corrected for.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Formerly well-respected news organizations and experienced national journalists are making the sorts of mistakes that aren't tolerated in journalism schools. When their mistakes are corrected at all, it's with little seeming regret.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never once corrected someone who got my name wrong.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 12, I had an operation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and they corrected the curving in my spine. I've got two 12-inch rods and eight screws going up my back keeping me straight, and they fuse together with my spine, so now I can't really live without them.
- Injustice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.
- Comforted
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was with my father at his end, as he was with me at my beginning. In the thirty-three years we shared together, he raised me, taught me, corrected me, comforted me, encouraged me, and supported me in all things.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and gave me advice when I was studying rhetoric.
- Prince
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best counsel for us to give young people is that they can arrive back to Heavenly Father only as they are guided and corrected by the Spirit of God. So if we are wise, we will encourage, praise, and exemplify everything which invites the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020