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Are we correct to have changed as much as we have? Or isYokoi correct not to have changed at all?

-Asahi Shimbun
  Editorial comment, 28  Jan, on the discovery of  World War II survivor SergeantYokoi in the Pacific jungles.

Notale everhappened intheway wetell it.Butthemoral is always correct.

-Barthelme, Donald
  The Dead Father, ch.6.

We have a habit in this country of correcting things just as they are about to correct themselves.

-Brady, Nicholas F(rederick)
  In the NewYork Times,1 Feb.

It is not a correct deduction from the Principles of Economics that enlightened self-interest always operates in the public interest† Experience does not show that individuals when they make up a social unit are always less clear-sighted than when they act separately.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
Essays in Persuasion.

I am a woman of the world, Hector; and I can assure you that if you will only take the trouble always to do the perfectly correct thing, and to say the perfectly correct thing, you can do just what you like.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Lady Utterword to Hector Hushabye. Heartbreak House, act1.

Protocoligorically Correct.

-Sherman, Richard M and Robert B
  Title of song from The Slipper and the Rose.

Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.

-Swift,Jonathan
  'On Poetry', l.85^8.

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