"Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human."

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Source : Kathryn Schulz (2010). “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error”, p.8, Harper Collins

Kathryn Schulz

#Nice Quotes #Errors Quotes #People Quotes

“While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.”
“I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.”
“I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.”
“Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!”
“I expect my next job to be outside government.”
“That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.”

Source : "The Art of Poetry (Canto I)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.
“I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kisses wwere a rarity for me growing up, and when they did happen, they often struck me as lifeless, something he did because he felt he was supposed to, not because he wanted to.”
“I believe increasing minimum wage it`s not just the minimum wage, it`s a living wage.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com

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