Quotes about right
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“You need to follow your own heart in light of God’s word and do what you feel is right and good for you.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

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“It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

Source: Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

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“Right, because I'm flat-chesteda midget.”

Source: City of Bones

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“Uh-huh, right. Let me count all the ways you and I aren't going there.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

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“Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have…" or "Sorry, but I just didn't…" They apologize while telling you that they were right all along, which is the opposite of an actual apology.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

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“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”

John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist

Not attributed to Keynes until after his death. The original quote comes from Carveth Read and is:
It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.
Logic, deductive and inductive (1898), p. 351 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18440/18440-h/18440-h.htm#Page_351
Misattributed

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“To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last…”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Source: Jane Austen's Letters

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“But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?”

Source: Clockwork Prince

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“To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

"A Word to Husbands" in Marriage Lines (1964)

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“Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

The Believer interview (2013)
Context: Yeah, our view of reality, the one we conventionally take, is one among many. It’s pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don’t actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what’s going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings. We perceive our own perception, and that perception is to us the entirety of the universe. I believe magic is, on one level, the willful attempt to alter those perceptions. Using your metaphor of an aperture, you would be widening that window or changing the angle consciously, and seeing what new vistas it affords you.

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“I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day.

Whoever I had become had to die.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

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“When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten.”

Zhuangzi (-369–-286 BC) classic Chinese philosopher

Source: The way of Chuang Tzu

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“Myrnin:I could murder a cheeseburger right now
Oliver:focus ya fool”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Morganville Vampires, Volume 4

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“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.”

Source: Civil Disobedience (1849)

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“I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…”

Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

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“I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

Lecture, The Anti-Slavery Movement http://books.google.pt/books?id=wN9Dj-_wM0IC&pg=PA33&dq=%22I+would+unite+with+anybody+to+do+right+and+with+nobody+to+do+wrong.%22&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22I%20would%20unite%20with%20anybody%20to%20do%20right%20and%20with%20nobody%20to%20do%20wrong.%22&f=false (1855)
1850s
Variant: I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.

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“I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.”

Michael Palin (1943) British comedian, actor, writer and television presenter

Source: Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years

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“What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer.”

Neil Postman (1931–2003) American writer and academic

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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“If you can't do something smart, do something right.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Source: Serenity

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