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• I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fun, Unpacking, Way

  Interview with Jeff Sartain, strangehorizons.com. October 16, 2006.

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• I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

  Aaron Sorkin

  America, Goal, Conservative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe that you have to have lived through something to write about it.

  Tone Bell

  Hate, Believe, Writing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• "Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Fun, Car, Getting Older

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his music is the epitome of order.

  Frans de Waal

  Order, Killers, Apes

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• A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a deity. This is far from being the case. If, as I hold, there is no good reason to believe that a god either created or presides over this world, there is equally no good reason to believe that a god created or presides over the next world, on the unlikely supposition that such a thing exists.

  A.J. Ayer

  Believe, Afterlife, World

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• The words 'theory' and 'practice' are of Greek origin; they carry our thoughts back to the ancient philosophers by whom they were contrived, and by whom they were also contrasted and placed in opposition, as denoting two mutually conflicting and mutually inconsistent ideas. ... [this fallacy] based on a double system of natural laws retarded for centuries the development of physical science, notably mechanics.

  William John Macquorn Rankine

  Law, Practice, Ideas

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• The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

  George Orwell

  Believe, Government

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Men, Play

  Ernest Hemingway, Séan A. Hemingway (2003). “Hemingway on war”, Scribner Book Company

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• It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

  John Steinbeck

  Sadness, Men, Years

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.330, Penguin

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• It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc.  All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Old School, Men, Intuition

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• The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

  Sid Grossman

  Doe, Naturalism

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• One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of the category error. They all want the state to be something it cannot be. They passionately believe the government can love you, that the state can be your God or your church or your tribe or your parent or your village or all of these things at once. Conservatives occasionally make this mistake, libertarians never do, liberals almost always do.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Mistake, Believe, Love You

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• It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Classic, Moron

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• The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.

  Richard Flanagan

  Grief, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You're never in control. That - that is the greatest fallacy of the - you know, there's over 200 people that it requires to make a film. And there's people who are in control of how you look, what your performance is, what takes are used, what - you're only in control of how you say no.

  Sandra Bullock

  People, Looks, Film

  "Sandra Bullock: Just Really Happy To Be Nominated". "Morning Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 19, 2010.

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• For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the individual. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's fallacies or falsehoods. It just happens to be one perception of what's happening.

  Q-Tip

  Art, Mean, Stuff I Like

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Unquestionably the truth or fallacy of the theory of the survival of the soul is by far the most tremendous question that can exercise the human mind. The more you think of it, the more all other questions seem to sink into utter insignificance, for only if survival be true, can the Universe be rationalized at all.

  Ernest MacBride

  Exercise, Thinking, Soul

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• Obamacare is collapsing. It's dead. It's gone. There's nothing to compare anything to because we don't have health care in this country. You just look at what's happening. Aetna just pulled out. Other insurance companies are pulling out. We don't have health care. Obamacare is a fallacy. It's gone.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Care, Compare

  Remarks by President Trump and President Santos of Colombia in Joint Press Conference, www.whitehouse.gov. May 18, 2017.

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• What does one have to do today to reconcile France? Distribute public money - that's what some expect, especially the radical left. They think that you help people by handing them money. But that is a fallacy because it is not me distributing the money, but rather future generations.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Thinking, People, Today

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• I think it's a total fallacy for people to say, "You couldn't make those old movies today." I think there's more ways to get a movie made today than ever in the history of the entertainment industry. It's a very exciting time to work in movies, if you're a creative person looking to make a very personal, weird vision.

  Edward Norton

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

  Freya Stark

  Mistake, Belief, Fear Of Failure

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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