Quotes with wrong-headed

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  • John Kenneth Galbraith In economics the majority is always wrong.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Abraham Lincoln In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God can not be for and against the same thing at the same time.
    Meditation on the Divine Will, ca. 2 September 1862
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ben Horowitz In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Ben Horowitz In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Eric Butterworth In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Ben Mezrich In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.
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  • Caprice Bourret In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
    Caprice Bourret
    American businesswoman, model and actress (1967 - )
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  • Benedict Wong In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Billy Corgan In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • David Fasold Intellectual brilliance is no guaranty against being dead wrong.
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  • Richard P. Feynman It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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  • Anatole France It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Ben Jonson It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • John Maynard Keynes It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George S. Patton It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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