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On accuracy, correctness, and fixing mistakes.
These correct quotes weigh political correctness against personal honesty, and question how accurate certain widely accepted texts really are. See related Accuracy quotes.
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The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.
Accuracy Quotes
I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
Corrected Quotes
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.
I think it is absolutely correct to solve the problem of terrorism in Iraq and Syria and Libya.
When the correct tests are done, GM products are as safe as their non-GM counterparts.
Correcting Quotes
I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Correction Quotes
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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