I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.
— Linus Pauling Modern

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Explaining his 'Golden Rule'

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c. 1960s-1980s

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Humorous

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