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Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

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People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them. But I'm much more even-keeled and subdued and relaxed than Joey Tribbiani. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

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When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort. ↗

— Quintilian

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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends. ↗

— M. Russell Ballard

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Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication. ↗

— John Green

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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