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For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Erwin Schrodinger
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The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.


Colin Powell
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Integrity reveals beauty.


Thomas Leonard
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I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.


Charlie Chaplin
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Aggressive and irresponsible steps endanger the peace and stability of the world, and the international community feels the need to protect itself from Iran.
Moshe Katsav
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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.


Sydney Biddle Barrows
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What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?
Russ Feingold
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.


Kim Dae Jung
Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
Patrick MacGill
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Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
John W. Gardner
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We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
Edward Sapir
If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.
Wang Shi
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Right is right and wrong is wrong.


Terrell Owens
For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.
Sela Ward
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The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.
John Redwood
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A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset
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The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.


Antiphanes
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It's a lack of respect for the community when you're not willing to debate because it's the 'wrong' network.
Pete Gallego
My childhood, I wouldn't say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My parents taught me what's wrong and right, and knowing that I had a little brother following me, I had to make sure I was doing the right thing so he knows what's right, too. I was in the house nine days out of 10. There wasn't nothing good outside for me.
Russell Westbrook
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