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The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties. – H. L. Mencken

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I never know when I press these whether I am going to blow up Massachusetts or start the project. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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