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Subject
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H. H. Munro (Saki)
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General
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Error
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
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Dr. Leonard Piekoff
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General
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Error
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…if you are to fight these errors, you have to know the main arguments advanced in favor of them. You have to hear the Devil’s case, so to speak, presented as strongly as his case permits…You have to be sure you know on each issue what really is true and what is wrong with the arguments advanced for the erroneous position.
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3
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Victor Hugo
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Literature
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Error
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.
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Charles Babbage
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Science
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Error
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On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament] "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"
I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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