Boy: I have always wished to believe that Churchill never said that, because it is stupid and might well be taken as bullying. Mr Atlee, of course, would have been too much a gentleman to point out that what one is modest about is one's virtues & achievements, and therefore, if one has much to be modest about, etc. * Professor, at a doctor's oral: What are Robert Oppenheimer's important contributions to physics? Student: I don't know. Professor: That is the correct answer. Another physicist once said: That isn't right. It isn't even wrong.
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