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“No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purposes.” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.” Isaac Asimov, “Foundation” - 1951

“You are bound to go up and down, just as I did in my youth, but do keep your clarity of mind, and if fools or sages dare to criticise don't blame yourself too much.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” - 1921

“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” - 1921

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