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Quote Left By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste. Quote Right
Quote Left If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay. Quote Right
Quote Left Symptom : Feet cold and wet. Fault : Glass being held at incorrect angle. Solution : Turn glass so that open end is pointing at ceiling. Symptom : Bar moving. Fault: You are being carried out. Solution : Find out if you are being taken to another bar. If not complain loudly that you are being hi-jacked. Symptom : Everything has gone dim. Fault : The pub is closing. Solution : PANIC!! Quote Right
Quote Left The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed -- only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be -- then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that! Quote Right
Quote Left Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. Quote Right
Quote Left [In discussing the poem which now might be considered] politically incorrect, ... . . . people felt that way in 1933. Quote Right
Quote Left To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect? Quote Right
Quote Left Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you b... Quote Right
Quote Left Pat Healy Really, it's only a side thing for my true passion. Mary And what's that Pat Healy I work with retards. Mary Isn't that a little politically incorrect Pat Healy Yeah, maybe, but hell, no one's gonna tell me who I can and can't work with. Quote Right

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Quote Left To know what we do know, and to know what we don't, is true knowledge.—Confucius on the need for real wisdom and proper perspective, sometimes incorrectly attributed to Nicolaus Copernicus, loose translation by Michael R. Burch Quote Right
Quote Left "Time flies, when used incorrectly." Quote Right
Quote Left It is the ultimate political incorrectness when the "me" society replaces the "we" society. Quote Right
Quote Left "PRIDE EXPOSES OUR INCORRECT SENSE OF JUSTICE." Quote Right

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