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A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is…
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I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy,
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As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool…
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The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples…
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Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted…
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But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old…
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If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does…
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In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its…
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Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.
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MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women -…
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I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous…
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It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity.…
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
— Lord Byron
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Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
— Frederic Raphael
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Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction
— Carol Alt
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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
— William Randolph Hearst
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I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.
— Julian Schnabel
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Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
— Mike D
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
— John Hodgman
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The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.
— Greg Cox
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Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.
— Richard Posner
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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy,…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible,…
— Bill Vaughan
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