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last updated: November 28, 2023

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
-- Francis Atterbury

Source : Francis ATTERBURY (Bishop of Rochester.) (1740). “Sermons and Discourses on several Subjects and Occasions”, p.67

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The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.
-- Karl Kautsky

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Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.
-- Rich Lowry

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False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
-- William Penn

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“Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.”
“Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.”

Source : Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”
“The Bahamas is a small population. But it plays a lot bigger than the population suggests. You feel close to everything. Everything that happens in the wider world happens here. Like migration issues. Or refugee issues. Or homophobia.”
“So everything we believe about happiness is wrong," I said. He nodded. Everything?" I asked, when what I meant was, Everything? Including you? Including me? And Marcus, being Marcus, knew what I really wanted to know, and answered my silent, more significant question. He held up his hand to shield the rays and looked me in the eyes. Almost.”
“The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.”
“The solutions the non-profits are trying to provide aren't keeping pace with the problems they're trying to survive.”
“It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.”
“There is strength in numbers and those numbers come in pounds.”
“Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didnâ€™t like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton.”
“I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.”