An unpleasant truth in our spin-addled age

by Jack Grant

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-Aldous Huxley

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Nor do untruths become facts by repeated insistence.

These two ideas define most blogging today.

Nicely said, Dan. It’s important to note that “two wrongs don’t make a right”- not because it’s relevant to anything. It’s just fun to say.

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.    -Thomas Jefferson

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
   -Theodore Roosevelt

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
   -Epictetus

I have too much compassion to be a conservative and too much sense to be a liberal.
   -Stephen Millich

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.
   -James Madison
    4th US president (1751 - 1836)

...being tough doesn’t require being stupid. It’s totally optional.
   -Scott Adams
   cartoonist and satirist

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
   -H. H. Williams

Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
   -Peter da Silva

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Do not confuse ‘duty’ with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

—Lazarus Long

One more roll of the dice…

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