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There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.


Daniel O'Connell

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GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
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ZAMAN ALI There is nothing right and wrong until anyone defines it.
ZAMAN ALI There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
BILL CLINTON There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
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DEBASISH MRIDHA There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction
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The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible.
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LAURA HARRING Quit telling me that "you haven't done anything wrong." Most people waste their lives trying to do n...
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FULTON J. SHEEN There is no right or wrong, only what we believe is more right or more wrong
EVAN MEEKINS There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.
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BERNIE SANDERS There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it i...
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COLIN MELOY It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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SUNDAY ADELAJA There is nothing inherently wrong about science.
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DEYTH BANGER Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
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MIKE SINGLETARY There is nothing fundamentally wrong with America's cities that money can't cure.
CARL STOKES Striving for the impossible is better than striving for nothing.
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JOHN O'DONOHUE Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.
TIM O'BRIEN Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When ...
MEGHAN O'ROURKE There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a ...
STEWART O'NAN We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate those ...
TIM O'BRIEN It's sad when you learn you're not much of a hero.
TIM O'BRIEN Experience has taught me that what you love, you should love all the harder because someday it will ...
RONAN O'BRIEN A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks mo...
P.J. O'ROURKE Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and ...
PAT O'SHEA You're the fire burning inside of me.
KELVIN O'RALPH I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wis...
PETER O'TOOLE If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
CONAN O'BRIEN Lasting healing comes from being curious rather than controlling, from mercy rather than manipulatio...
MARY O'MALLEY What the hell is that?" he asked.
"Magic mushrooms."
"I've always wanted to try those," he...
HEATHER O'NEILL The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was pu...
STEWART O'NAN The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ...
P.J. O'ROURKE The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations!
JENNIFER O'NEILL Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ...
ERIN O'RIORDAN Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR By subsidiarity is meant the principle that responsibilities should be devolved to the lowest viable...
DENIS O'BRIEN