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• Most people prefer certainty to truth.
• What men really want is not knowledge but certainty. -- Bertrand Russell
• Most people exhibit what political scientists call "the conservatism of the peasantry.
  Don't lose what you've got. Don't change. Don't take a chance, because you might end up starving to death....
• The most elusive knowledge is self-knowledge, and it is usually acquired through solitude, rather than through interaction with others.
• Long's Notes 1) Always store beer in a dark place.
  2) Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent....
• Most people have a mind that's open by appointment only.
• In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than knowledge.