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  • Barbara Jordan The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
    Source: The Great Society: a twenty year critique
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Omar Khayyam The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Confucius The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Hannah Whitall Smith The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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  • Robert Burns Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Burton Cummings There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
    Burton Cummings
    Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Candice S. Miller Throughout this primary process the voters have vetted each candidate and after a spirited contest they have made clear who they believe is right person to lead our ticket and that is Governor Mitt Romney. I believe they have come to this conclusion because they know that Governor Romney will begin working on day one to turn around our economy.
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  • Ogden Nash To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Erica Jong To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Aristotle Well begun is half done.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Charlotte Whitton Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
    Charlotte Whitton
    Canadian feminist and mayor (1896 - 1975)
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  • Lord Chesterfield When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Henry Ford Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • David Lehman Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
    David Lehman
     
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  • Winston Churchill You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Napoleon Hill You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Casey Stengel All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • William S. Gilbert And I am right, And you are right, And all is right as right can be.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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