a shandean commonplace book

No amount of belief makes something a fact.                        James Randi

Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable? W.E.B. Dubois

If you’re going to tell people the truth, you’d better make them laugh; otherwise they’ll kill you.                        George Bernard Shaw

There is no language without deceit. Italo Calvino