Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...much more important--the Klan member wants for himself; the revolutionary communist, however screwed up, wants for others. The Klan has a vision of the past, the RCP of the future. People can be excused for their fantasies about the future, for no proof exists that they are wrong. So scorn the Klan, hate the Klan, pray that they go away. But when you pass the RCP people in the Square, understand them, tell whoever you're with that their hearts are in the right place, give them a quarter for the goddamn newspaper...
...Everybody was a little surprised, but I wasn't. Not really. Then he broke my serve to tie up the second set at 6-6, which he eventually won to tie up the match. But I never thought about losing, and in the third set I could do no wrong. I won the set 6-1, and the match. I lost in the finals to Tomm Warneke, but it was my first five set match ever. I was really hurting by the fifth...
...think for a moment that the whole country is not behind the Expos, you are wrong. By hitting America where it counts--on the ball field--they can command televised respect without even instituting draft registration...
...skrit quotations tended to be shaky. If a bit of spiritualist theater in a darkened room helped to shore up the convictions of her fellow Theosophists, where was the harm? It was charlatanism in the highest cause of all, she felt, and thus when one of her stunts went wrong, or when a dis gruntled confederate published letters from her, giving detailed instructions for illusions, H.P.B. was unembarrassed...
...scientific concept of the dictatorship [of the proletariat] means nothing other than unlimited government unrestrained by any laws or any absolute rules and supporting itself directly by force." Marx said that after a Communist revolution, the state would wither away. Wrong; it has grown and overgrown, with a bureaucratic luxuriance...