„There's so much more to get than wronged.“

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— Brandon Boyd

Lyrics, Light Grenades (2006)

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Brandon Boyd

US-amerikanischer Rocksänger, Songautor und Kunstmaler 1976

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„No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much. Never have the consequences of their misunderstanding been so tragic.“

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— Richard Nixon 37th President of the United States of America 1913 - 1994

No More Vietnams (1987).
1980s

„There are so many ways of being wrong and so few ways of being right that it is much more economical to study successes.“

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— Richard Hamming American mathematician and information theorist 1915 - 1998

Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

„Mr Pollexfen was at one and the same time right and wrong—a condition much more common than is generally supposed.“

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— Rafael Sabatini, buch Captain Blood

Quelle: Captain Blood (1922), Ch. IV: "Human Merchandise"

„A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.“

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— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Quelle: Gilead

„What's so wrong with feeling sorry for myself? Better that than trying to get other people to feel sorry for me.“

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— Orson Scott Card, Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

„You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing.“

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— Peace Pilgrim American non-denominational spiritual teacher 1908 - 1981

Quelle: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (1982), Ch. 11 : Transforming Our Society
Kontext: You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord. Grass-roots peace work is vitally important. All who work for peace belong to a special peace fellowship — whether we work together or apart.

„So much of the research on musical expertise has looked for accomplishment in the wrong place, in the facility of the fingers rather than the expressiveness of emotion.“

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— Daniel Levitin American psychologist 1957

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

„The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.“

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— Richard Russo, Empire Falls

Quelle: Empire Falls

„If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.“

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— Steve Kagen American politician 1949

"Problems We Face Together", Representative Steve Kagen, United States House of Representatives, 2007-07-21 http://kagen.house.gov/issues.shtml#edu,
Education

„One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.“

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— Nick Hornby, buch Songbook

Quelle: 31 Songs

„Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.“

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— Russell L. Ackoff Scientist 1919 - 2009

Quelle: 1970s, Redesigning the future, 1974, p. 8.

„He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.“

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— Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

„More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.“

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— Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman philosopher and statesman -106 - -43 v.Chr

„A monkey is a much better voter than a socialist. Statistically speaking, if we assume that there are two options to choose from: the "A" and the "B" - the monkey is voting randomly, so its wrong 50% of the time. The socialist, however - is always wrong.“

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— Janusz Korwin-Mikke polish politician 1942

Quelle: blog, 7 November 2008

„There is no correlation between having the ability to punish and being right. More often than not, the wrong people get punished. And the punishers use their power to keep from being accountable.“

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— Sarah Schulman American writer 1958

Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair (2016)

„There are few people who are more often wrong than those who cannot suffer being wrong.“

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— François de La Rochefoucauld, buch Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Il n'y a point de gens qui aient plus souvent tort que ceux qui ne peuvent souffrir d'en avoir.
Maxim 386.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)