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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Thomas Paine

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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Alexander Pope

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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

Thucydides

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Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

Thomas Aquinas

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Robert E. Lee

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Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every year, contentions spring up between them and our people, and when blood is shed, we have to make atonement, whether right or wrong, at the cost of the lives of our greatest chiefs and the yielding up of large tracts of our lands.

Tecumseh

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In economics, the majority is always wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Dr. Seuss

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I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.

David Anders

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The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

Andy Rooney

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I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

Lawrence Welk

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Denis Waitley

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Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

Shakuntala Devi

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If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

Alex Trebek

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Being an entrepreneur is a mindset. You have to see things as opportunities all the time. I like to do interviews. I like to push people on certain topics. I like to dig into the stories where there's not necessarily a right or wrong answer.

Soledad O'Brien

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There have been times when I have goofed up, and like every adolescent, I sometimes did get led the wrong way. I would come back home really scared to face my mom's wrath and anger, but surprisingly, I never got to face one. She would always tell me in a very nice manner that what I did was wrong and that I should correct myself.

Karan Patel

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Withdrawing support from globalization is taking us in the wrong direction.

Justin Trudeau

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Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Edward Teller

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You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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