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• Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me.
  We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts....
• BANANAS: What baby prefers to clay.
• Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is no
  a sense of humor to console him for what he is. -- Francis Baco...
• Humanity prefers comfort over truth.
• Great hypocrites are the true atheists. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic.
  A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health....
• The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason He made so many of them.
  -- Abraham Lincol...
• The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason that He makes so many of them.
  -- Abraham Lincol...
• The Norwegian Blue prefers kippin' on its back!