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“Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.”

“Andrew Lang Fairy Tale Books”

“Andrew Lang, The Making of Religion, Longmans, Green and Co., 1909.”

“If indeed there be a god in heaven.”

“Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.”

“Andrew Lang, Letters to Dead Authors, transcribed from the 1886 Longman's edition.”

Resonant Thoughts

"As threats went, it was not subtle, nor was it original. But it was one of those things that had stayed around because it tended to work."

— Sarah Zettel

Science1966

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"Certes, they been lyk to houndes, for an hound whan he comth by the roser, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a contenaunce to pisse."

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Literature1343–1400

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