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- The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
- No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
- Donald Foster
- The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
- The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
- Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader
- Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
- Samuel McChord Crothers
- A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Mostly Harmless
- Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Man of La Mancha
- Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
- Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle
- You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)
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