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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

The question "Who ought to be boss" is like asking "Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?" Obviously...

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The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talen...

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Every man has his own destiny the only imperative is to follow it to accept it no matter where it...

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What's important is finding out what works for you.

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size or it is not the door that providence means...

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Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities think carefully what your shoulders may refuse and what t...

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I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence...

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Leadership does not depend on being right.

Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't mat...

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J. Michael StraczynskiCivil War: The Amazing Spider-Man

I don't like to say 'dork' and 'nerd' and things like that because I think that everyone is cool in ...

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Jovinderpihainu breaks it. “You are right to ask, Shari. But there is a difference between being hon...

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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose...

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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are...

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He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under ...

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It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made I tried to be an herbalist whereas I ...

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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to li...

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Most of our platitudes notwithstanding self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tri...

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When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have t...

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When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes lea...

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The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attemp...

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John Gray (philosopher)False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the p...

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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

When men are rightfully occupied then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals o...

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The weakest among us has a gift however seemingly trivial which is peculiar to him and which worth...

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When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the ...

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All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sen...

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John Stuart MillAn Essay on Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

Brutes find out where their talents lie a bear will not attempt to fly.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The ...

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The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, ...

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All life is the struggle the effort to be itself.

Abasement degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his ...

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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great...

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We had as lief not be as not be ourselves.

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. T...

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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be ful...

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If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be intere...

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next ...

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In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th ce...

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I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is...

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If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and wil...

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I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob ...

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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

I think God rarely gives to one man or one set of men more than one great moral victory to win.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nat...

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As you go along your road in life you will if you aim high enough also meet resistance ... but no...

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Lords of melody and song,Lords of roses burning bright,Blue will right the ancient wrong,Though the ...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't...

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This is the chief thing: be not perturbed for all things are according to the nature of the univers...

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Let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live.

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be cons...

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There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans chargi...

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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every ...

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A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened ...

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If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being...

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Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that ...

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I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometim...

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The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who w...

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In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision th...

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Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no ric...

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I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching...

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The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And ...

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The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and ...

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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.