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• Life seems to be a choice between two wrong answers.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Life, Two, Choices

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• Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.

  Sam Harris

  Failure, Problem, Natural

  Sam Harris (2014). “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it's not obvious that it's wrong.

  Sugata Mitra

  Teacher, Long, Google

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• The problem I see with utilitarianism, or any form of consequentialism, is not that it gets the wrong answers to moral questions. I think just about any moral theory, worked out intelligently, and applied with good judgment, would get just about the same results as any other.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Moral, Problem

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Asking, Way

  "Dawkins and the missionary position". Interview with John Preston, www.theage.com.au. December 23, 2006.

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• I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.

  Avi Rubin

  Giving, Machines, Program

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• Every question that can be answered must beanswered or at least engaged. Illogical thought processes must bechallenged when they arise.Wrong answers must be corrected.Correct answers must be affirmed. —From the Erudite faction manifesto

  Veronica Roth

  Answers, Factions, Process

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• Why don't I talk about Big Data? Because I am focused on intelligent answers and not speeds and feeds. It doesn't matter if it is quick if it's the wrong answer.

  Michael J. Saylor

  Smart, Intelligent, Data

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• People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.

  Ann Aguirre

  People, Trying, Answers

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.67, Macmillan

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• Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets a wrong answer to the question, ‘What is God like?’ and goes on from there. Though she may continue to cling to a sound nominal creed, her practical working creed has become false. The masses of her adherents come to believe that God is different from what He actually is; and that is heresy of the most insidious and deadly kind

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Believe, Simple

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.7, Fig

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• Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.

  Peter Drucker

  Looks, Blank, Term

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• My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Technology, Broken, Giving

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• I'm sorry for the randomness of what I wrote, Mr. Oswald. There's been a lot to absorb.' Without looking up, he says, 'Never apologize for writing your truth, Mr. Fink. There are no right or wrong answers.

  Wendy Mass

  Sorry, Writing, Apologizing

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• In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers.

  Eric Butterworth

  Math, Principles, Study

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• No. Haven’t you been listening?” Marcus would always remember that moment. It was to be the first time he would ever be faced with that most vexing of female quirks: the question that had nothing but wrong answers.

  Julia Quinn

  Listening, Female, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Sep 04, 2014

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• Cutting benefits is not the right answer. Raising the retirement age is not the best option.

  Barack Obama

  Retirement, Cutting, Age

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. November 11, 2007.

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• We need to be together." "Why?" I asked softly. The word was carried away on the wind, but he heard. "Because I want you." I gave him a sad smile, wondering if we'd meet again in the land of the dead. "Wrong answer," I told him. I let go

  Richelle Mead

  Letting Go, Wind, Land

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.223, Penguin

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• The uncreative mind can spot the wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot the wrong questions" The question has never been: Do we have the money? The question has always been: Do we have the resources?

  Jacque Fresco

  Creative, Mind, Spots

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• Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.

  Robert Ballard

  Motivation, Book, Inspiration

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• At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.

  Angela Merkel

  Country, Debt, Unions

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Get inside her head. Get inside any character's head and ask what they want in this scene. And if you work from the perspective of what they want, there's not going to be any wrong answer. There's going to be some boring answers, but none of them are going to be wrong. As long as she has agency, then you're on the right track.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Character, Agency, Long

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• I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

  Carl Jung

  People, Neurotic, Inadequate

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question.

  Brunonia Barry

  Asking, Easy, Results

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• In his mercy, He sent the storm itself to make us seek help. And then knowing that we're likely to get the wrong answer, He gives us a multiple choice exam with only one option to choose from: the correct answer. The hardship itself is ease. By taking away all other hand-holds, all other multiple choice options, He has made the test simple.It's never easy to stand when the storm hits. And that's exactly the point. By sending the wind, He brings us to our knees: the perfect position to pray

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Simple, Hands, Multiple Choice

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• I loved school; I loved the rules, and I liked there being right answers, wrong answers, and being able to give the right answer all the time. And that goes against who many would predict is going to go out and break rules and tell stories for a living.

  Kate DiCamillo

  School, Giving, Stories

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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