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  • All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

    Errors   Criticism   May  
    Samuel Johnson (1782). “The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Extracted from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims”, p.176
  • If any player has a bad game its there in the back of your mind in the next game. Theres always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.

  • Gore is nature's way of saying, "There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any way I can. SARS didn't work, but trust me, I'm cooking up something better. In the interim, please kill lots of yourselves.

    Cooking   Trying   Way  
    "JPod". Book by Douglas Coupland, 2006.
  • I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

  • The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao. It is said, rectify yourself and be done.

    Done   Tao   Virtue  
  • It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.

    William Wilberforce (2013). “A Practical View”, p.98, Simon and Schuster
  • In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.

    Order   Mind   Wish  
  • I have no problem in asking a diner to leave for two reasons: 1. If they are rude to my staff. No one has that right. If we make a mistake, allow us to rectify it. 2. If they are loud and abusive at the table. They have no regard or respect for the other diners, who may have worked very hard to save up their cash to afford your prices.

    Mistake   Two   Rude  
    Source: tart.org
  • For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.

    Mistake   Divorce   Facts  
  • When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.

  • It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act.

    Dalai Lama XIV (2009). “Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

    Art   Self   Needs  
    "Don't complain less - do it better" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2010.
  • Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.

    Book   Knowledge   Sloth  
    Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti, Samuel Johnson (1778). “A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences. To which is Added an English Grammar for the Use of the Italians”, p.324
  • But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.

    Men   Wind   Watches  
    Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.66
  • To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

    Mistake   Errors   Glory  
  • The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

    Art   War   Order  
    Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.41, GENERAL PRESS
  • A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

    Men   Feelings   Degrees  
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (2015). “Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode”, p.312, e-artnow
  • The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.

    Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.33
  • Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

    Age   Habit   Rectify  
    Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4”, p.61
  • The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

    Past   Justice   Causes  
  • Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

    Mad   Records   Injustice  
    Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”
  • Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.

  • Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a Speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one.

    Jobs   Writing   Reality  
  • These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.

    George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions
  • I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

    Curves   Long   Events  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.

    Forget   Rectify  
  • When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.

  • You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.

    Past   Charity   Today  
  • ...He palmed up the life Alert. Death Alert was more like it: Help, I haven't fallen and I'm standing up-can you come and rectify this problem? - Isaac

  • I don't think history is stupid.History ultimately rectifies a lot of these things. If you had to ask me what I think happens in 50 years, I don't think it sits empty in 50 years. Maybe somebody else's name is there. But you can't leave it empty.

    Stupid   Thinking   Names  
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