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Nothing makes you hate people as much as knowing in your heart that you are in the wrong and they are in the right. — Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist, author, in his NY Times column, Sept. 3, 2004 

I doubt that readers of the Daily Planet fall into the category of those who nurse a long-time, festering hatred for someone whose words or actions proved their own ideas just plain wrong. But I suspect we can all recall a brief flash of hatred we felt when someone spoke the words that proved without doubt that we had voiced a stupid opinion. 

No point in squirming in shame each time the memory of that moment pops up in our consciousness. The best antidote is this quotation by George Bernard Shaw: 

I never learn anything until a man contradicts me. 

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