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• An easily understood, workable falsehood is more useful than a complex, incomprehesable truth.
• An easily-understood, workable falsehood is more useful than a complex, incomprehensible truth.
  -- Thumb's Second Postulate...
• They begin with making falsehood appear like truth, and end with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
  -- Shensione...
• I'd Rather Be Anatomically Correct Than Politically So.
• Whatever became of eternal truth?
• A wizard's reputation is his bond, or so the sages say.
  And, as all learned men know, a reputation is difficult to build, and all too easily besmirched....