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• What most human beings really want to attain is not knowledge, but certainty.
  Gaining real knowledge requires taking risks and keeping the mind open....
• Most people prefer restrictions and regulations to absolute freedom of choice, although they would probably deny such a preference.
• GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY (#7): November 23, 1915 Pancake make-up is invented
  most people continue to prefer syrup....
• Most people - one may say the best sort of people - greatly prefer to do things for themselves, however badly, than to have things done for them, however well.
  -- Anon....
• I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war. -- Cicero
• From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne...
• The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring lia
  he men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. -- H.L. Mencke...