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• Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. (Albert Camus) [nature/instinct/right/right]
• The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. (Albert Camus) [right/mind]
• Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. (Elias Canetti) [right]
• For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. (Thomas Carlyle) [right/bad]
• The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. (Andrew Carnegie) [price/society/right/competition]
• The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter. (Barbara Cartland) [right/matter]
• When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. (Miguel De Cervantes) [severity/right/pity]
• I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. (Miguel De Cervantes) [right/conversation]
• At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. (Raymond Chandler) [right]
• However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money. (Raymond Chandler) [right/money]
• The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life. (Raymond Chandler) [willpower/willpower/right/life]
• When a person is in fashion, all they do is right. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [fashion/right]
• My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [right/mother]
• My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying My mother, drunk or sober. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [right/thing/think/mother]
• There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [matter/right]
• Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [more/men/right/men]
• There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right. (Winston Churchill) [right]
• It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. (Winston Churchill) [thing/right]
• The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. (Winston Churchill) [life/right]
• The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free. (Marcus Cicero) [rest/right]
• The good of the people is the greatest law. (Marcus Cicero) [people/right]
• The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. (Eldridge Cleaver) [politics/religion/right/books]
• Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder. (Charles Caleb Colton) [right/god]
• To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. ( Confucius) [right/cowardice]
• The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm. ( Confucius) [right]
• To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle. ( Confucius) [right/courage]
• The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ( Confucius) [right/willpower]
• He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. (Joseph Conrad) [trust/right/argument/right]
• There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right. (Bill Cosby) [right]
• The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. (Bill Cosby) [right/advertising]
• Necessity has no law. (Oliver Cromwell) [right]

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