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Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored. – Alfred Whitney Griswold

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A presidents hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. – Lyndon B. Johnson

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right. – Peter Drucker

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time. – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Mans greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. – Frederick Douglass

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