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Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs

Wrong things never lead to success. If a man acts wrongly and succeeds, that is not the way. Without...

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The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them...

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Philip RothAmerican Pastoral

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right.

Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides m...

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We've got to stand with our North Korean allies.

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The s...

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

It was wrong to do this," said the angel."You should live like a flower,Holding malice like a puppy,...

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Stephen CraneComplete Poems of Stephen Crane

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

I'VE NEVER BEEN VERY SURE ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT, said Bill Door. I AM NOT SURE THERE IS SUCH A THING A...

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… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was r...

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Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

There comes a time when a man must stand up and do what he knows is Wrong.

in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong...

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Tony JudtReappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

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William Kingdon CliffordThe Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.

Forget about life, forget about worrying about right and wrong. Plunge into the unknown and the endl...

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Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had tol...

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I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to b...

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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone...

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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

If I am right, Thy grace impartStill in the right to stay;If I am wrong, O, teach my heartTo find th...

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If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize t...

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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is alwa...

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...he had acquired the conviction that one had to concern oneself with the rational, not the insane—...

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It's better to make the wrong choice," my father had continued, "than to make no choice at all.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. Yo...

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Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief i...

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Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief i...

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Are you that afraid of being wrong? One would assume you’d be accustomed to it by now.”He grunted. “...

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We all want progress, but if you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walki...

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The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And...

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To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attai...

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We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

Cora blamed the people who wrote it down. People always got things wrong, on purpose as much as by a...

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Colson WhiteheadThe Underground Railroad

Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can...

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Y'know, there's a very interesting state of Anarchy up there. Everything's cracking up. That lot of ...

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I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say...

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As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go...

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There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.

What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep kn...

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…everything may be done in a right way or a wrong; the right way is to do it as well as we can, as i...

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Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That'...

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It's wrong to anticipate evil.

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen ...

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So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral...

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What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the ge...

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In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods —...

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Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with...

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... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.

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George FriedmanThe Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him the horror was that he might also be ...

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Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of cour...

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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

This was all horribly wrong. This was red wine with fish. This was a man wearing a dinner jacket and...

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I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence...

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The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact th...

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Truth forever on the scaffold wrong forever on the throne.

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are...

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Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevan...

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When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sen...

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John Stuart MillAn Essay on Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.

The one thing that I want every single child to have experienced at some point in their life, as par...

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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and wil...

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Lords of melody and song,Lords of roses burning bright,Blue will right the ancient wrong,Though the ...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't...

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Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be cons...

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[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.