Like All Religions, Reason Presents Itself As

I Have A Theory Of Statistics: If You Can Double Them Or Halve Them And They Still Work, They Are Really Good Statistics.

After All, In Both Languages We Were Dealing In Large Measure Not With English And French, But With Scots And Irish, Bretons And Normans ... There Could Be No More Eloquent Illustration Of The Colonial Mind-set Than A Bunch Of Celts And Vikings In A Distant Northern Territory Insulting Each Other As Les Anglais And The French As If They Were The Descendants Of The People Who Had Subjected And Ruined Them.

Everyone Has An Equal Right To Inequality.

We All Need A Bit Of Self-delusion. It Gets Us Over The Difficult Spots.

There Is Something Silly About Grown Men And Women Striving To Reduce Their Vision Of Themselves And Of Civilization To Bean Counting.