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And their partner told them they were wrong.
If my mouth waters when I bite into a wormy apple, does anybody say to me, "You said no, but your body said yes?" (Laughter) And it's not only our partners who get it wrong.
They had a lot of omission of information, but unfortunately, the wrong information.
What's wrong with you?" Right?
If anyone thinks you can have a war on piracy like a war on terrorism and beat it, you're wrong.
The wrong framing is a product of thinking that Africa is a place of despair.
But how can I tell an eight-year-old boy that his father is a politician?" (Laughter) Now, as a politician myself, standing in front of you, or indeed, meeting any stranger anywhere in the world, when I eventually reveal the nature of my profession, they look at me as though I'm somewhere between a snake, a monkey and an iguana, and through all of this, I feel, strongly, that something is going wrong.
The result was that I found stuck outside my office a huge crowd of people, this is actually a photograph taken in Libya but I saw the same scene in Iraq of people standing outside screaming for the elections, and when I went out and said, "What is wrong with the interim provincial council?
What is wrong with the people that we have chosen?
If we set about saying, for example, torture is wrong because it doesn't extract good information, or we say, you need women's rights because it stimulates economic growth by doubling the size of the work force, you leave yourself open to the position where the government of North Korea can turn around and say, "Well actually, we're having a lot of success extracting good information with our torture at the moment," or the government of Saudi Arabia to say, "Well, our economic growth's okay, thank you very much, considerably better than yours, so maybe we don't need to go ahead with this program on women's rights."
I hadn't done anything wrong.
In particular, when we asked them questions about sort of taboo but fairly harmless sexual practices, just being reminded that they ought to wash their hands made them think that they were more morally wrong.
Because in that highest age category of 76 to 85, as much as 40 percent of people have nothing really wrong with them.
Normality overlooks the beauty that differences give us, and the fact that we are different doesn't mean that one of us is wrong.
And it's only when it goes wrong that we start to realize the importance of families to children.
I learned a lot about deception while doing my duty here in customs, one of which was that most of what I thought I knew about deception was wrong, and I'll tell you about some of that tonight.
You would be wrong.
Now, that's also wrong, because traffic happens to be a nonlinear phenomenon, meaning that once you reach above a certain capacity threshold then congestion starts to increase really, really rapidly.
Wrong again.
Some people were paying attention, but for the wrong reasons.
Sanford Meisner was my Uncle Artie yelling silently to himself, "Something's always wrong when nothing's always right."
It will arrive at the wrong spot, and what it's doing here if it's using path integration is it's counting its steps or measuring the distance out in this direction.
If you displace it, it ends up in the wrong place.
If he's using path integration, then it should end up in the wrong spot over here.
I said, "What's wrong?"
Now, the original title of this session was, "Everything You Know Is Wrong," and I'm going to present evidence that this particular part of our common understanding is wrong, that, in fact, our ancestors were far more violent than we are, that violence has been in decline for long stretches of time, and that today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.
President Clinton, if you're here, thank you. (Laughter) So the question is, why are so many people so wrong about something so important?
Not just, what are we doing wrong?
No one on land had any idea that anything had gone wrong.
The problem was that they listened to the wrong story.
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