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• An easily understood, workable falsehood is more useful than a complex, incomprehesable truth.
• It is better to solve a problem with a crude approximation and know the truth, plus or minus 10 percent, than to demand an exact solution and not know the truth at all.
  -- Thumb's First Postulate...
• He who conceals a useful truth is equally guilty with the propagator of an injurious falsehood.
  -- Augustine...
• Truth and falsehood are both whatever, and simultaneously not so, rather than not.
  -- Tim Larkin, March 31, 1993...
• Horner's Five-Thumb Postulate: Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.
• People are more easily led than driven. -- David Harold Fink
• They begin with making falsehood appear like truth, and end with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
  -- Shensione...