Quotes with correction

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  • Alvin Toffler Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Hosea Ballou Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • A. R. Ammons If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Harriet Martineau Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Agnes de Mille The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
    Agnes de Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • Ben Carson You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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