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Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

That one probabilistic statement (P90) is more likely than another (P50) says nothing at all about what will happen.  We can rank our predictions, but we cannot really predict.

Christopher Valerian,  In Search of Boundary Conditions.

They looked at their culture (the nineteenth century) and concluded: “We have nothing.” Apparently, this judgment was made with great ease.

Teresa Ravens,  The Lives of Helena Blavatsky.

The notion of uncertainty concerning one year from now is simple to accept.  Uncertainty over the next five minutes, however, presents a challenge.

Nigel Swoone,  Old Theories of Time.

“Once we have come to know the person’s feelings on the matter, what else could possibly concern us?”  Malcolm had that way of putting his derision into interrogative form.

Jason Starling, ed.,  Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.

When the [sleeper] awakens, sleep does not end but only changes.

Cyrus Donato,  Nodes and Internodes.

Trap a Yezidi inside a circle and he will die there.  He cannot escape.

Mirri Alfassa,  Theory of the Hollow Earth.

When we came back from the supermarket with Cocoa Puffs instead of Count Chocula, Beverly hit the roof.

Charles Jeffrey Yett,  Writing in Miniature—Vol. Three.

Question:  What is dangerous, first and foremost?

Answer:  Believing people.

Maynard Bittle,  Order in Magnitude.

Dishonesty is the natural order; honesty must be attained.

Edward Beverly III,  Our Manifold Defects.