"The laws of probability, so true in general,……" — Edward Gibbon

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• Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody… — Stokely Carmichael
• There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most… — Robert Browning
• Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as… — Thomas Jefferson
• Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only… — Hippocrates
• But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious… — Bertrand Russell
• The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious… — Unknown Author
• In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled… — Cyrano de Bergerac
• Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on… — Jose Raul Capablanca
• The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all… — Ludwig von Mises
• Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of… — Alexander Hamilton
• Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption… — Stokely Carmichael
• Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form. — Immanuel Kant

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