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Quote by Felix Frankfurter
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professiona

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. – Felix Frankfurter

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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. – Felix Frankfurter

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Whats an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesnt know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesnt admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesnt really know how much. – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

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