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The minority is always in the right. The majority is always in the wrong.

— Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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  4. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
  5. Golf is a good walk spoiled.
  6. In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
  7. Tomorrow is the yesterday of two days from now.
  8. When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

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  • ethics
  • society
  • truth
  • majority
  • minority

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