Practical gentlemen hate uncertainty, balancing of probabilities,

Practical gentlemen hate uncertainty, balancing of probabilities, skepticism or approximation. They have a number of bitterly satirical comments on persons whose minds are so open that their brains fall out. They are bent on getting to a conclusion. – Max Radin, 1937

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