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“What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.”

Made Said Creation Cat Proof Plus Mice Blunders

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost of a claim to be thought a good fencer.To my vision his merits have still seemed to dwindle,Since I have found him allied with the great Dr T[yndall]While I have, for my part, grown cockier and cockier,Since I found an ally in yourself, Mr L[ockyer]And am always, in consequence, thoroughly willin',To perform in the pages of Nature's M[acmillan].”

Ifs Made Stills Found Vision Pages Consequence Claims Ghost Merit Allies Drs Thunder Blunders Printer

Author:Peter Tait

“Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely”

“When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.”

Bigs Mistake Faults Boss Secretary Reporters Workplace Bucks Blunders Clerks Salespeople

Author:Al Neuharth

“They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.”

President Failure Blunders Wilson President Wilson

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“What a mistake those who do not hope make! Judas made a huge blunder the day in which he sold Christ for 30 denarii, but he made an even bigger one when he thought that his sin was too great to be forgiven. No sin is too big: any wretchedness, however great, can always be enclosed in infinite mercy.”

Made Bigs Christ Sin Mistake Huge Mercy Bigger Infinite Forgiven Blunders Judas Wretchedness

Author:Pope John Paul I

“Time trouble is blunder time.”

Time Trouble Chess Blunders

Author:Alexander Kotov

“Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.”

World Littles Made Character Opportunity Names Records Discovery New World Monument August Blunders Profane

Book:Christopher Columbus and how He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery

Source: Christopher Columbus and how He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery

“One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God”

People Spiritual Religious Ministry Blunders

Book:Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

“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 stroke of the pencil.”

Shows Fields Advantage Logic Mathematics Math Reasoning Strokes Pencils Blunders

Author:Norbert Wiener

“During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.”

World Years War Hours Four Military Wall One Day Beach War Of The Worlds Allies Four Years Second World War Blunders Military History Omaha

Author:Stephen Ambrose

“It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.”

Stories Time Cases Novel Deny Novelists Thread Fabric Blunders

Book:Aspects Of the Novel

Source: Aspects Of the Novel

“Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.”

Made Multitudes Rope Blunders Les Miserable

Book:Les Miserables Volume One

Source: Les Miserables Volume One

“The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away”

Giving Pain Hurt Kindness Vanity Passing Away Blunders

Book:Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

“Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.”

Reason Despair Vitality Blunders Reins Predicaments

Book:The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

“I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.”

Home Happens Age Young Left Fine Married Traveled Young Age Blunders

Author:Fred Couples

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