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Ethics is the compass that keeps profits from leading you astray. – Christen Kuikoua	added by ChristenKuikouafans 1 month ago
What if we pour all our resources into building a smart city, only to realize that we have forgotten to cultivate smart minds? Our obsession with smartphones and mindless entertainment has led us astray, preventing us from truly experiencing the beauty of the world and connecting with others. Let us not trade genuine human connections for a virtual reality, for it is through true smiles and heartfelt encounters that our cities truly come alive. – Yvonne Padmos	added by Freelancer 10 months ago
They had been led astray by an Instagram era wanna-be prophet guru who spoke in just the right way and manner to draw these two young men in. – David Wolman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Assumptions always lead us astray. – Simone Ahuja	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If I stop loving you because my wisdom leads me astray, remember the love we shared of every love filled day. – Heather Lydia Thornhill	added by heatherthornhill 2 years ago
No one leads you astray if you don't accept. – Wesley D'Amico	added by WesleyD'Amico 3 years ago
This tendency to hold on to the poorly performing securities can end up continuing to cost the investor, investors often make decisions based on gut instinct, but that can really lead them astray. – Lisa Kramer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
'60 Minutes' this past Sunday interviewed over 30 young people who transitioned but they felt led astray because of lack of pushback or how easy it was to make physical changes to their bodies … They are now detransitioning. – Tanner Cross	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Were dealing with a radical left agenda that is deliberately lying, falsifying information to lead the public astray. – David Benham	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
M.O.M.S.= mothers of murdered sons. When I wrote this in my book-(c)-2000- profiles in courage of ghetto mothers- isbn # 1584700416- it was done with that passion within me for my people, and the love I have and seen from those who are poor. I have seen many lives gone astray because of poverty and the ways it forces some of us to live- homeless-in prisons- drug dependent- losing one's sense of purpose- losing one's life. My life's work so far, is spent in helping others not to lose their way. This is why I also created my reggae to heal the nations. – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by anonymous 5 years ago
We’ve been led astray by viewing space as some kind of a fuzzy panda bear thing i think the Chinese … the Russians and others, they view space as the ultimate high ground. They are preparing for battle in space. – Harry Harris	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
This is a victory of values, the values of the Enlightenment, the values of France, the values on which America was founded, the values from which the US and the UK have gone significantly astray, this is the end of know-nothing populism. – Nicholas Dungan	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We are seeing an influx of advertising aimed at parents for a wide array of products, including food and beverages, toothpaste and vitamins, this is a sad situation when it takes so much energy to sift through false claims and to determine which products are actually healthful ... advertising claims, especially when they are unsubstantiated, can certainly lead parents astray. – Corey Basch	Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is a sad situation when it takes so much energy to sift through false claims and to determine which products are actually healthful ... advertising claims, especially when they are unsubstantiated, can certainly lead parents astray. – Corey Basch	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Generous donations which are uncoordinated tend to go astray or to prove less effective than they might be if they were part of a well laid plan. – Aung San	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this. – Alexander Herzen	added by anonymous 10 years ago
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. – Christina Rossetti	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way. – Matthew Prior	added by anonymous 11 years ago
We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious. – Ryszard Kapuściński	added by anonymous 11 years ago
We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride. – Metastasio	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything. – Confucius	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The ideal conditionWould be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;But since we are all likely to go astray,The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. – Sophocles, Antigone	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. – Saint Teresa Of Avila	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Ethics is the compass that keeps profits from leading you astray.

– Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
1 month ago

What if we pour all our resources into building a smart city, only to realize that we have forgotten to cultivate smart minds? Our obsession with smartphones and mindless entertainment has led us astray, preventing us from truly experiencing the beauty of the world and connecting with others. Let us not trade genuine human connections for a virtual reality, for it is through true smiles and heartfelt encounters that our cities truly come alive.

– Yvonne Padmos

added by Freelancer
10 months ago

They had been led astray by an Instagram era wanna-be prophet guru who spoke in just the right way and manner to draw these two young men in.

– David Wolman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Assumptions always lead us astray.

– Simone Ahuja

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If I stop loving you because my wisdom leads me astray, remember the love we shared of every love filled day.

– Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
2 years ago

No one leads you astray if you don't accept.

– Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
3 years ago

This tendency to hold on to the poorly performing securities can end up continuing to cost the investor, investors often make decisions based on gut instinct, but that can really lead them astray.

– Lisa Kramer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

'60 Minutes' this past Sunday interviewed over 30 young people who transitioned but they felt led astray because of lack of pushback or how easy it was to make physical changes to their bodies … They are now detransitioning.

– Tanner Cross

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Were dealing with a radical left agenda that is deliberately lying, falsifying information to lead the public astray.

– David Benham

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

M.O.M.S.= mothers of murdered sons. When I wrote this in my book-(c)-2000- profiles in courage of ghetto mothers- isbn # 1584700416- it was done with that passion within me for my people, and the love I have and seen from those who are poor. I have seen many lives gone astray because of poverty and the ways it forces some of us to live- homeless-in prisons- drug dependent- losing one's sense of purpose- losing one's life. My life's work so far, is spent in helping others not to lose their way. This is why I also created my reggae to heal the nations.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
5 years ago

We’ve been led astray by viewing space as some kind of a fuzzy panda bear thing i think the Chinese … the Russians and others, they view space as the ultimate high ground. They are preparing for battle in space.

– Harry Harris

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This is a victory of values, the values of the Enlightenment, the values of France, the values on which America was founded, the values from which the US and the UK have gone significantly astray, this is the end of know-nothing populism.

– Nicholas Dungan

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We are seeing an influx of advertising aimed at parents for a wide array of products, including food and beverages, toothpaste and vitamins, this is a sad situation when it takes so much energy to sift through false claims and to determine which products are actually healthful ... advertising claims, especially when they are unsubstantiated, can certainly lead parents astray.

– Corey Basch

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This is a sad situation when it takes so much energy to sift through false claims and to determine which products are actually healthful ... advertising claims, especially when they are unsubstantiated, can certainly lead parents astray.

– Corey Basch

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Generous donations which are uncoordinated tend to go astray or to prove less effective than they might be if they were part of a well laid plan.

– Aung San

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

– Alexander Herzen

added by anonymous
10 years ago

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

– Christina Rossetti

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

– Matthew Prior

added by anonymous
11 years ago

We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious.

– Ryszard Kapuściński

added by anonymous
11 years ago

We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride.

– Metastasio

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

– Confucius

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

– Oscar Wilde

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The ideal conditionWould be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;But since we are all likely to go astray,The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.

– Sophocles, Antigone

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

– Saint Teresa Of Avila

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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