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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.


Newt Gingrich
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot
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Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
Epicurus
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I may have been stupid, but I've done nothing wrong.


Margaret Moran
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.


William Hazlitt
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I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.
Ted Dexter
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.


Felix Frankfurter
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If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.
Roger Caras
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The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way.
Timothy Noah
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When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.
Erica Jong
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William Shakespeare
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We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.


John Spratt
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.


Vanessa Paradis
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The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.
Vince Staples
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I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.
Diane Abbott
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If the concept of the Enterprise crew meeting the Legion of Super-Heroes doesn't appeal to you, there may be something wrong with you.
Chris Roberson
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Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Henry David Thoreau
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I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.
Scott Stapp
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The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
Anne Sullivan
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen Hawking