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Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

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Blaming and reforming never go together, because the blamer gets too much secret pleasure out of having things go wrong.

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Ambiguity has its own uses, and it is better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

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A "consultant" is more often than not a person brought in to find out what has gone wrong, by the people who made it go wrong, in the comfortable expectation that he will not bite the hand that feeds him by placing the blame where it belongs.

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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong."

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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.

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