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1 " Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. "
― Orson Scott Card , Alvin Journeyman (Tales of Alvin Maker, #4)
2 " By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth lay outside the neat confines of science.... "
3 " History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. "
4 " Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper "
5 " Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. "People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them. "
6 " If good people weren’t so trusting of bad ones, the human race would have died out long ago—most women never would have let most men near them. "
7 " was good enough when good men held the office, but always when you create an office that a man can lay hands on, an evil man will someday lay hands on it. "
8 " When the people elected a president like this one, who ran a campaign like the one he ran, it was hard to imagine what kind of scandal might bring him down. "
9 " I’m not a character in one of your novels.” “More’s the pity. You would speak more interesting dialogue if you were. "
