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> [“It was more important to be honest. “We glide over the offensiveness of names and calm down our consciences by eulogistic mellifluous terms, until our very moral senses are dulled,” she wrote. “Let things be shown, let them come forth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-fagone/it-was-more-important-to-be-honest-we-glide-over-the-offensiveness-of/)

[Jason Fagone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-fagone/)

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## More by Jason Fagone

> [“America First,” a campaign slogan of Woodrow Wilson, had been adopted by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-fagone/america-first-a-campaign-slogan-of-woodrow-wilson-had-been-adopted-by/)

[Jason Fagone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-fagone/)

> [“a nonderanged boss,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-fagone/a-nonderanged-boss/)

[Jason Fagone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-fagone/)

> [“It's not quite true that history is written by the winners. It's written by the best publicists on the winning team.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-fagone/it-s-not-quite-true-that-history-is-written-by-the-winners-it-s/)

[Jason Fagone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-fagone/)

> [“the measure of a person was her ideas”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-fagone/the-measure-of-a-person-was-her-ideas/)

[Jason Fagone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-fagone/)

> [“one condition: that she be allowed to work from home.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-fagone/one-condition-that-she-be-allowed-to-work-from-home/)

[Jason Fagone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-fagone/)

> [“Nikola Tesla predicted in 1926 that “when wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-fagone/nikola-tesla-predicted-in-1926-that-when-wireless-is-perfectly/)

[Jason Fagone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-fagone/)

> [“William made his own children sign a checkout slip if they wanted to carry a book”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-fagone/william-made-his-own-children-sign-a-checkout-slip-if-they-wanted-to/)

[Jason Fagone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-fagone/)

> [“It made them feel, as all good books do, less alone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-fagone/it-made-them-feel-as-all-good-books-do-less-alone/)

[Jason Fagone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-fagone/)

> [“his mother collapsed at the news that her son had married a shiksa.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-fagone/his-mother-collapsed-at-the-news-that-her-son-had-married-a-shiksa/)

[Jason Fagone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-fagone/)

> [“There were possibly three or at most four persons” in the whole United States who knew the slightest thing about codes”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-fagone/there-were-possibly-three-or-at-most-four-persons-in-the-whole-united/)

[Jason Fagone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-fagone/)

> [“One way of thinking about science is that it’s a check against the natural human tendency to see patterns that might not be there.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-fagone/one-way-of-thinking-about-science-is-that-it-s-a-check-against-the/)

[Jason Fagone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-fagone/)

> [“rejected from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-fagone/rejected-from-swarthmore-college-in-pennsylvania/)

[Jason Fagone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-fagone/)

> [“The world is made of stuff and that stuff behaves in certain predictable ways; if you master the rules, you master the stuff.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-fagone/the-world-is-made-of-stuff-and-that-stuff-behaves-in-certain/)

[Jason Fagone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-fagone/)

> [“It was once remarked of a well-known Oxford scholar that, while he had no enemies, he was hated by all his friends. Something of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-fagone/it-was-once-remarked-of-a-well-known-oxford-scholar-that-while-he-had/)

[Jason Fagone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-fagone/)

> [“making yourself understood to another person is essentially a problem of cryptology.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-fagone/making-yourself-understood-to-another-person-is-essentially-a-problem/)

[Jason Fagone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-fagone/)

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