"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."

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"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."

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"Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?"

"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house."

"We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment."

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"But wasn't that always the way. It's never something huge that changes everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you're busy focusing on the big picture."

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"Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free."

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