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{{quote|The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look behind words that have changed their meaning.|[[Terry Pratchett]]|''[[Lords and Ladies]]''}} |
{{quote|The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look behind words that have changed their meaning.|[[Terry Pratchett]]|''[[Lords and Ladies]]''}} |
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{{quote|Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth. |
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|''The Ghost in the Machine'' by '''Arthur Koestler'''}} |
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{{quote|Not the [[Both Sides Have a Point|violent conflict between parts of the truth]], but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood. |
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|'''John Stuart Mill'''|''On Liberty'' }} |
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