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• One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong.
  And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission....
• If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage
  and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking,--the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr....
• Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
  -- Benjamin Disraeli...
• It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. -- Benjamin Disraeli
• Wolf's Law (An Optimistic View of a Pessimistic World) It isn't that things will necessarily go wrong (Murphy's Law)
  but rather that they will take so much more time and effort than you think if they are not to go wrong....
• Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
  -- Benjamin Disraeli...
• Mr. Kremlin was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
  -- Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881) -- Sybil, Book iv, Chap. v...
• Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. -- Frankli