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Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
Edward Teller
Life
Visible
Slowly
Only
Catastrophe
Wrong
Clearly
Improves
Goes
Fast
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Hope
Good
Guide
Way
Though
Generally
Wrong
Very
Good Company
Company
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward de Bono
You
Business
School
Mind
Will
Believe
Analyze
See
Totally
Give
Data
Only
Wrong
Almost
Almost All
New
Ideas
Most
Executives
New Ideas
Scientists
Graduates
Unfortunately
Business School
Many
Prepared
Belief
The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.
Elihu Root
Country
Own
Orator
Politicians
Other
Other Countries
Everything
Extreme
Statements
Claims
Seek
Tendency
Wrong
Countries
Most
Listen
Declaring
Who
Popular
Popularity
Right
Almost all decisions based on cost accounting are utterly wrong.
Eliyahu Goldratt
Cost
Wrong
Almost
Almost All
Accounting
Decisions
Based
Utterly
I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Women
Those
Born
Allowed
Wrong
Feel
Like
Category
Genuinely
Mothers
Tragedy
Up
Any
Ends
Children
Happens
Really
Should
Who
Near
I'm not someone who thinks Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right.
Elizabeth Warren
Someone
Wrong
Democrats
Always
Republicans
Who
Right
Thinks
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
Eric Hobsbawm
Patriotism
Group
Outcast
Seems
Wrong
Like
Because
Itself
American
Against
Really
Measures
Who
Right
Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, Jesus didn't do it the world's way. He came in and offended the world. He came in and did everything the wrong way.
Eric Ludy
World
Offended
Everything
Way
He
Wrong
Wrong Way
Came
Did
Want
Acknowledge
Whether
Jesus
If we keep asking the wrong questions, we are just going to get better wrong answers. The solution to lack of community isn't to give up on the community.
Erwin McManus
Better
Community
Solution
Give
Wrong
Answers
Questions
Up
Get
Going
Lack
Just
Asking
Keep
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Eugene V. Debs
Great
History
Changes
Rule
Wrong
Involved
Majority
Principles
Occur
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
Frances Wright
Ethics
First
Lose
Action
Else
Beneficial
Sight
Moral
Find
Morals
Something
Something Else
Wrong
True
Ideas
Principle
Real
False
Than
Departure
Substitute
Now
Right
Here
Basis
Associated
Consequent
Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.
Freeman Dyson
Science
Argument
Become
Say
Wrong
Because
Climate
Politically
Politically Incorrect
Different
Unfortunately
Things
Incorrect
If I can't affect some change in six years, maybe I'm in the wrong place.
George Nethercutt
Change
Some
Wrong
Wrong Place
Affect
Years
Six
Maybe
Place
There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
George Steiner
Noise
Culture
Something
Wrong
Terribly
I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.
George Steiner
Hope
Risks
Writing
Judge
Sometimes
Find
Small
Take
Wrong
Unwilling
Stylistic
Am
Goes
Often
Much
Means
Right
For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.
George Stephanopoulos
Behavior
President
President Clinton
Would
Would-Be
Wrong
Himself
His
Clinton
Office
May
Impulsive
Now
Resign
I know now that there are men out there who are, for me, the whole package, who are supportive of my successes because they know I will be just as supportive of theirs. I'm less tolerant of foolishness now; I know that it's important I not tie myself up with the wrong person, because then I will miss the right person coming along.
Ginnifer Goodwin
Myself
Me
Right Person
Will
Men
Important
Out
Foolishness
Wrong
Miss
Supportive
Along
Know
Tie
Because
Coming
Up
Person
Just
Package
Then
Successes
Less
Who
Tolerant
Whole
Now
Right
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.
Gloria Steinem
You
Will
Our
Statistic
Only
Fact
Wrong
Well
Make
Make Up
Because
Narrative
Go
Hear
Brains
Up
Very
May
Story
Which
Organized
The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.
Greg Boyle
World
Matter
Other
Out
Taken
Wrong
Idea
Than
Just
Might
Root
Less
Lives
Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.
Guy Kawasaki
People
World
Smart
Owes
Rules
Something
Wrong
Well-Meaning
Get
Different
Them
Believing
Start
Start Believing
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
H. G. Wells
Death
You
Suffering
Made
Revolution
Nothing
Our
Danger
Worthwhile
Abolish
Purpose
Simply
Wrong
Suffer
A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.
Hamza Yusuf
You
Tree
Alive
Staying
Something
Wrong
Same
Grows
But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about you in this business whether they are your agent or your manager or your publicist.
Heather Matarazzo
Day
You
Business
People
End Of The Day
Circle
Cares
About
No One Cares
No-One
Wrong
Within
End
Truthfully
Manager
Whether
Agent
Your
Publicist
Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
Hedy Lamarr
Parents
Criminal
Out
Boring
Parental
Cruel
Badly
Wrong
Most
Because
Children
Mean
Turn
Means
Image
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry Adams
Man
Woman
Only
Through
Wrong
Known
Who
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