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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.


Wendell Mayes

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ANTONE DEJESUS It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
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JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
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BARBRA STREISAND WRONG Person can sometimes be RIGHT BUT WRONG Mind can never be RIGHT!!
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ANDREW MWANGURA Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.
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DENISE HAYNIE I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.
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ROBERT JACKSON The wrong decision in this case could be a fatal one.
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WENDELL BERRY Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps...
WENDELL BERRY The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
WENDELL BERRY When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what m...
WENDELL BERRY The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad ...
WENDELL BERRY If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power host...
WENDELL WILLKIE To me, that's not enough punishment. But what I want most from him is an apology.
WENDELL TACKETT For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take aw...
WENDELL WILLKIE The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
WENDELL WILLKIE Free men are the strongest men.
WENDELL WILLKIE If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to ...
WENDELL BERRY To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progr...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism
WENDELL PHILLIPS I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of C...
WENDELL WILLKIE It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside wo...
WENDELL WILLKIE Responsibility educates
WENDELL PHILLIPS Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to ext...
WENDELL WILLKIE No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into ...
WENDELL WILLKIE The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana....
WENDELL BERRY Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and ...
WENDELL BERRY Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there wil...
WENDELL BERRY But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, a...
WENDELL WILLKIE It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....
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