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  • Carl Hiaasen People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Ban Ki-moon People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bode Miller People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false; a gift confers no rights.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Alexander Chase People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Andrew Wiles Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Olive Schreiner Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Angela Merkel Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Billy Eckstine Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Ben Hogan Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
    Ben Hogan
    American professional golfer (1912 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Laurence Sterne Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Bob Beauprez President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Hillary Clinton Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.
    Hillary Clinton
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bill Buford Probably the single most important evolutionary trait dogs developed was right there at the outset, illuminated by the campfire. It is in those eyebrows and in the way dogs have of tilting their heads. They are warm packages of emotions.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Robert Redford Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
    Robert Redford
    American actor (born 1936) (1936 - )
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  • John Adams Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
    A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Barry Eisler Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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