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In rhetoric and ethics, "two wrongs don't make a right" and "two wrongs make a right" are phrases that denote philosophical norms. "Two wrongs make a right" has been considered as a fallacy of relevance, in which an allegation of wrongdoing is countered with a similar allegation.
"Life's a climb. But the view is great." There are times when things seemingly go to plan, and there are other moments when nothing works out. During those instances, you might feel lost.
And this being so, if there were an infinity of chances, of which one only would be for you, you would still be right in wagering one to win two, and you would act stupidly, being obliged to play, by refusing to stake one life against three at a game in which out of an infinity of chances there is one for you if there were an infinity of an ...
George remarks to Jerry in Monk's Café that every decision he has ever made has been wrong, and that his life is the exact opposite of what it should be. Jerry convinces him that "if every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right". George experiments with doing the complete opposite of what he would do normally.
The correct quote is 'If you build it, he will come.' 'Wall Street' Though Gordon Gekko definitely thinks greed is good, his quote is actually 'Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.'
So, like the rest of us, in our many different ways, I’m making the best of a bad situation. My present wife, Amie, who has been a Buddhist all of her life, once remarked to me that she found enormous consolation in the Buddha’s observation that life is suffering because, as she said, “I realized that it wasn’t something wrong I was doing.
Another common guess is that 42 refers to the number of laws in cricket, a recurring theme of the books. [19] Yet another possible reason relates to Adam's background in the ASCII character encoding, where the number 42 can be represented by an asterisk (*). The asterisk, in turn, essentially represents "input whatever the user would like".
Porter and Combs’ children denounced the book — titled “Kim’s Lost Words: A journey for justice, from the other side…” — as […]