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Mahatma Gandhi

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

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Just because many people believe or spread a mistake doesn't make it true. Similarly, something real and true doesn't lose its validity simply because it is unnoticed or ignored by others.

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