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• Men are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
  -- Molier, from the Mise...
• In any given field, the leading voices come from people who are motivated not by conviction but by the desire to present opinions and ideas that differ from those held by the majority.
• Republican views of the world differ from Democratic views of the world.
  The reason for this is that these views are based on different compilations of misinformation....
• Turing tar-pit n. 1. A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is practical.
  Alan Turing helped lay the foundations of computer science by showing that all machines and languages capable of expressing a certain very primitive set of operations are logically equivalent in the kinds of computations they can carry out, and in principle have capabilities that differ only in speed from those of the most powerful and elegantly designed computers....
• Turing tar-pit: n. 1. A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is practical.
  Alan Turing helped lay the foundations of computer science by showing that all machines and languages capable of expressing a certain very primitive set of operations are logically equivalent in the kinds of computations they can carry out, and in principle have capabilities that differ only in speed from those of the most powerful and elegantly designed computers....
• In respect to lock-making, there can scarcely be such a thing as dishonesty of intentio
  he inventor produces a lock which he honestly thinks will possess such and such qualitie...
• EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
  The exception proves the rule" is an expression constantly upon the lips of the ignorant, who parrot it from one another with never a thought of its absurdity....
• Evolution is as much a fact as the earth turning on its axis and going around the sun.
  At one time this was called the Copernican theory...
• The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness. -- Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Dispossessed