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only to be right but also to be wrong." | |
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Thomas Szasz
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| "All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which
thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil,
universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason"s spite, One truth is
clear, Whatever is, is right." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "Do what you feel in your heart to be right ? for you"ll be
criticized anyway. You"ll be damned if you do and damned if you
don"t." | |
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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| "Do what"s right. Do it right. Do it right now." | |
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Barry Forbes
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| "Don"t take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent
has taken the right side." | |
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Baltasar Gracian
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| "Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there
isn"t the will to do what is right." | |
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Aleksandr Solzhnitsyn
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| "From the egg right to the apples. ? Ab ovo usque ad mala." | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are
convinced beyond doubt that they are right." | |
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Laurens Van der Post
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| "I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand
with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes
wrong." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my
perfect right." | |
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Frederick II the Great
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| "I want to do the right thing, but often I don?t know just what the
right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to
have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its
oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar
little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening
shadows find me regretful at task?s undone, but sleep and the dawn and the
air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in
through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don?t worry about
my destiny." | |
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Carl Sandburg
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| "If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long
ago." | |
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William Hazlitt
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| "If that"s the price of getting together, then I"ll be damned if I
want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If the rest of them
can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to
survive? Nothing can make self-immolation proper. Nothing can give them
the right to turn men into sacrificial animals. Nothing can make it moral
to destroy the best. One can"t be punished for being good. One can"t be
penalized for ability. If that is right, then we"d better start
slaughtering one another, because there isn"t any right at all in the
world!" | |
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Ayn Rand
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| "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established
authorities are wrong." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "Just because something is tradition doesn"t make it right." | |
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| "Might does not make right; it only makes history." | |
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Jim Fiebig
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| "Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in
dust." | |
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Violet Fane
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| "Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field.
I"ll meet you there." | |
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Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi
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| "Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it
lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your
defeat." | |
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Laurence Sterne
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| "RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the
Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some
feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into
several European countries ..." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong." | |
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Adolf Hitler
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| "The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may
be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute?he simply speaks
and does what is right." | |
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Mencius
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| "The great man with vigor should demand the rightness of things,
timeliness of action, and propriety of method. In this way, power does not
degenerate into sheer force." | |
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I Ching
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| "The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be
always right by having no ideas at all." | |
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Edward de Bono
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| "The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at
the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting
moment." | |
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Dorothy Neville
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| "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be
taken seriously." | |
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Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr.
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| "The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless
he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty." | |
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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| "The supreme test of a person is his ability to make things go
right." | |
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Unknown
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| "The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to
do. The hard part is doing it." | |
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General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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| "The two most important requirements for major success are: first,
being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something
about it." | |
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Ray Kroc
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| "This isn"t right, this isn"t even wrong." | |
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Wolfgang Pauli
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| "Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are
generally those who achieve something." | |
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Aldous Huxley
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| "To have a right to do a thing is not the same as to be right in
doing it." | |
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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| "Try to know everything of something and something of
everything." | |
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Henry Peter, Lord Brougham and Vaux
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| "We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for
separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are
fighting for ... human rights." | |
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Malcolm X
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| "When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong,
you cannot be too conservative." | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| "When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong,
you cannot be too conservative." | |
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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| "Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am
right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?" | |
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Jane Austen
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| "You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is
right." | |
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Philip Crosby
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