Quotes with wrong-headed

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  • George Orwell It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Russell Baker People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
    Russell Baker
    American journalist (1925 - )
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  • Hosea Ballou Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Maimonides The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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  • Confucius The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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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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  • Napoleon Hill Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Horace When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton ''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ben Shapiro 'Noah' doesn't merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it's bound to do that (although some aspects of the film are out and out ridiculous). It gets the morality of the story wrong, and in the process turns God into Gaia and morality into radical deep green environmentalism.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Ogden Nash A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Robert Townsend A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • A. Whitney Brown A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
    A. Whitney Brown
    American writer and comedian (1952 - )
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  • John Steinbeck A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • R. Buckland A large body of research results demonstrates that an observer can be persuaded to conform to the majority opinion, even when the majority is completely wrong.
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  • Allan Carr A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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