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• [No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of… — Louis D. Brandeis
• The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy. — Marshall McLuhan
• A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries… — Elbert Hubbard
• It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is… — Mark Twain
• Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts… — Thomas Huxley
• We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by… — Samuel Johnson
• We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of… — Nicholas A. Christakis
• As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. — Ludwig von Mises
• There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are… — Emma Goldman
• A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The… — Louis Agassiz

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