Quotes with wrong-headed

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  • Black Hawk Every one makes his feast as he thinks best, to please the Great Spirit, who has the care of all beings created. Others believe in two Spirits, one good and one bad, and make feasts for the Bad Spirit, to keep him quiet. They think that if they can make peace with him, the Good Spirit will not hurt them. For my part I am of the opinion, that so far as we have reason, we have a right to use it in determining what is right or wrong, and we should always pursue that path which we believe to be righ
    The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833)
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  • Bob Brown Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • Carolyn Chute Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is explore. I want to see what people would do. I say, 'What would this person do in this situation?' and I write it down. I'm not writing manifestos of my political views.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Ben Horowitz Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Sam Slick Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right; immediately.
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  • Bobby Darin Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Bonnie Bassler Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Biz Stone Everything I've done, I've made up. Some of that might have been right; most of it was probably wrong.
    Biz Stone
    American entrepreneur (1974 - )
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  • Richard Bach Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Rex Harrison Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
    Rex Harrison
    English actor (1908 - 1990)
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  • Erica Jong Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Alexander Pope For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bode Miller From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu General notions are generally wrong.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • William E. Gladstone Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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