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Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
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John Milton (1608 - 1674)
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
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Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.
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O.G. Sutton
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
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Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame.
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Chuq Von Rospach
As a USENET discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
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Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies
"I must've seen it in a USENET posting"; that's sort of like hearsay evidence from Richard Nixon.
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Blair Houghton
It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file.
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Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.
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Mark Leeper
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