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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Person, Righteous, Pours

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.
Charles Wilson

Peace, War, Character

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mother, Drunk, Saying

I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.
Rick Perry

Country, America, Free

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Home, Everyone, Far

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian

Everything, Temper

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Thomas Carlyle

Science, Feeling, Originated

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Bertrand Russell

Beautiful, Real, Why

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Good, God, Person

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William Penn

Everyone, Against

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Maimonides

Decision, Risk, Indecision

Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.
Nicole Polizzi

Career, Said, Vision

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Theodor Adorno

Life, Cannot, Lived

Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.
Harvey Fierstein

Few, Save, Admit

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage

Two, Confusion, Put

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
Robert E. Lee

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mean, Means, Sexual

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
Douglas Horton

Good, Chance, Attention

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.
Richard Dawkins

Love, Peace, Nothing

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Charles Bukowski

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!
William Shatner

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
Blaise Pascal

Nothing, Fact, Scepticism

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy

Power, Patriotism, Suffering

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.
Morrie Schwartz

Life, Important, Busy

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
Barbra Streisand

Care, Sure, Name

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
Moliere

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.
Deepak Chopra

Live, Mind, Real

I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.
Andy Rooney

Feeling, Enough, Eat

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, Bear, Oftener

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Charles Kingsley

Age, Past, Long

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