"There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out."

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"It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still."

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"I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal."

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"Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be."

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