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“It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.”

Way Turns Sin Late Errors Innocent Too Late Repentance Repent Never Too Late

Author:Seneca the Younger

“There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way that gives a better return to me.”

People Ifs Way Giving Book Character Hands Running Turns Hours Novel Cutting Figures Willing Return Reader Pages Lays Errors Posts Online Copies Promoting Printed Edits Spine Output Return To Me

Author:Cory Doctorow

“When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself. For by attending to this thou wilt quickly forget thy anger, if this consideration is also added, that the man is compelled; for what else could he do? or, if thou art able, take away from him the compulsion.”

Ifs Men Art Able Turns Forget He Man Errors Faults Consideration Compelled Offended Thyself Compulsion Attending

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.”

Ends Enough Turns Errors Subtle Mistaken Integrated Intertwined

Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values

“Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.”

Bigs Political Turns Opportunity Economic Missing Events Depends Errors Surprise Financial Ashamed Clients Say Anything Cumulative Outlandish Big Surprises

Book:The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

“Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into”

Humans Turns Perfection Errors Linked

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world.”

Ifs World Want Needs Giving Whole Light Turns Painting Photography Cameras Errors Whole World Spots Blur

Author:Miroslav Tichy

“Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.”

Ifs Truth Turns Sleep Errors Waking

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe