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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 26, 2015
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)  
Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205  
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
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Edward Teller (1908 - 2003)  
There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
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Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007), Armies Of The Night  
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