Quote by William Safire
Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected. - Will

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected. – William Safire

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If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. – William Safire

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It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. – Andrew J. Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses

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There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. – Laurence J. Peter

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Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. – Peter Marshall

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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. – Malcolm S. Forbes

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We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness. – Thomas Merton

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When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. – Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988

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In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death — even vegetarians. – Spock from Star Trek, “Wolf in the Fold”

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