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The human understanding when it has once
adopted an opinion draws all things else to support and agree with it.
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-Francis Bacon
New Organon
Aphorism 42
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What plays the mischief with the truth is
that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling
or opinion.
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-Herman Melville
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The degree of one's emotion varies
inversely with one's knowledge of the facts--the less you know the
hotter you get.
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-Bertrand Russell
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Whenever masses of people, especially
educated people, know something--and what they know is something they
greatly fear because they believe it affects virtually everything they
do or want to do--then most likely we stand in the presence of a vast
falsehood.
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-Thomas Szasz
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Once you've tried to change the world you
find it's much easier to change your mind.
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-Unknown
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If there were a verb meaning 'to believe
falsely,' it would not have any significant first person, present
indicative.
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-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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