Sir James

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    Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
    Terence, Sir Conran (b. 1931)

    As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
    —William James (1842–1910)