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John Maynard Keynes quote: "It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong."
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. John Maynard Keynes
I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world has a cure. Jonathan Franzen
Pain is nothing, just a warning signal from the body to the brain. Pain is no more the real thing than an X-ray photograph is the real thing. Biut of course he is wrong. J. M. Coetzee
A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it. Barbara Kingsolver
J. D. Salinger quote: "Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from..."
Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next. Is he ever wrong? J. D. Salinger
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. He is our only possible ally, and we have made ourselves His enemies. Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger - according to the way you react to it. And we have reacted the wrong way. C. S. Lewis
When I finished bathing after dinner, Kumiko was sitting in the living room with the lights out. Hunched down in the dark with her gray shirt on, she looked like a piece of luggage that had been left in the wrong place. Haruki Murakami
I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong! David O. McKay
Boy, this really wasn't one of his days. He just couldn't put a foot right. It was a situation all too familiar to me, this business of setting off on the wrong foot and doggedly remaining there. Only I'd never watched it from the outside before. It was fascinating. Elaine Dundy
I did everything wrong," he said. "I misunderstood everything. Moon Child gave me so much, and all I did with it was harm, harm to myself and harm to Fantastica."Dame Eyola gave him a long look. No," she said. "I don't believe so. You went the way of wishes, and that is never straight. You went the long way around, but that was your way. And do you know why? Because you are one of those who can't go back until they have found the fountain from which springs the Water of Life. And that's the... Michael Ende
Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done. Tracy Kidder
Richard P. Feynman quote: "I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to..."
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. Richard P. Feynman
Henry James quote: "I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I..."
I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all. Henry James
Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world. Jeanette Winterson
Andy Warhol quote: "Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight."
Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight. Andy Warhol

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