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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. -- Florence King
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve. -- Paul Nitze
It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's. -- Heather Mills
You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing. -- Henry Petroski
Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness. -- Alveda King
I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly. -- Norman Lamm
With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena. -- Will Self
To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical. -- Georges Canguilhem
To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil. -- Seneca the Younger
Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable. -- George Eliot
Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. -- Alveda King
Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error. -- Kenneth Appel
If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human. -- William Mulholland
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity." -- Michel de Montaigne
We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact. -- Donald Berwick
We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human. -- Michael C. Burgess
Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into -- Arthur Schopenhauer
We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human. -- Michael C. Burgess
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error. -- Saint Augustine
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Error is human,perfection is divine!You are not God! Your mistake is normal.So forgive yourself. -- Dr Paul Gitwaza
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact -- Jacques Ellul
Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. -- George Bernard Shaw
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. -- William Ellery Channing
The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety. -- Jerome F. Lederer
To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error. -- Janet Coleman
How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error. -- Robert M. Lindner
Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. -- Yann Martel
Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident. -- Michael Ledeen
It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives -- Francis Bacon
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident. -- Michael Ledeen
People like to see human error when it's honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you. -- Paul Westerberg
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. -- Karl Popper
I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. -- Ken Wilber
It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body. -- Plato
It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character. -- Thomas Jefferson
The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go? -- Sybille Bedford
The Avatar appears to be human and we are misled into thinking of him in these terms but the Avatar himself warns us against this error. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance. -- Magnus Hirschfeld
I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries. -- Agatha Christie
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error. -- Christopher Morley
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. -- Howard Aiken
Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure? -- Pindar
Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale. -- Zadie Smith

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