“I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.”

— Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

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American writer 1965

Patricia Briggs book Bone Crossed

Source: Bone Crossed

“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist

“I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all – or am I? Perhaps I was an inquisitive person. I had to see all that for myself. I’m such a realist, you know, that I have to see everything with my own eyes in order to confirm that it's like that. I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths of life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.”

Otto Dix (1891–1969) German painter and printmaker

in the German army during world War 1. (1914-1918) <br class="br">Quote from Otto Dix, 1891-1969, exhibition catalogue, London: Tate Gallery, 1992, pp. 17–18; cf. pp. 27–28; as cited by Roy Forward, in 'Education resource material: beauty, truth and goodness in Dix's War' https://nga.gov.au/dix/edu.pdf, p. 9

“I have never committed the least matter to Him that I have not had reason for endless praise.”

Anna Shipton (1815–1901) British religious writer

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 596.

“I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

“I don't like the place at all. It's all wrong. An imposition on the Landscape.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

On Stonehenge, at alt.fan.pratchett (8 June 1997) http://www.lspace.org/ftp/words/pqf/pqf <br class="br">Usenet <br class="br">Context: I don't like the place at all. It's all wrong. An imposition on the Landscape. I reckon that Stonehenge was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.

“We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.”

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist

From 1980s onwards, Cosmography (1992)

“She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“He can't look like that. That's wrong. Just look at him!”

Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician

2012-05-10
Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents
Jason Horowitz
The Washington Post
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story.html
As recalled by friend Matthew Friedemann: remark about John Lauber, a fellow high school student with bleached hair over one eye, whose hair Romney forcibly cut while he was pinned to the ground.
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“Memories of ice and Trent surfaced, and I wrapped my arms around my middle. I had saved him, and he had saved me. What was wrong with us?”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

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