"...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover that they can without difficulty write in like manner themselves and win applause for it. And so it perpetuates itself."

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Source : George Albert Wells (1991). “Belief and make-believe: critical reflections on the sources of credulity”, Open Court Pub Co

George Albert Wells

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“I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.”
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“The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.”
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“Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.”
“A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.”

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