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" Those who use ‘Correlation is not the same as causation’ as a magic incantation to dismiss all fact-using professions are fools holding a lit match in one hand and an open gas can in the other, screaming, ‘One has nothing to do with the other!’ " - David Brin

" Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through. " - Phil Klay

" Sometimes I feel like distance helps observation. " - Kano

" I think I am a pretty good at understanding each character of each person I meet. " - Taeyang

" The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. " - Samuel Johnson

" Maybe instead of asking political candidates to submit tax returns, we really should be asking to see their brain scans. " - Daniel Levitin

" People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it’s interesting. It’s like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment. " - Amanda Bynes

" Hugo Strange is interesting in the sense that he’s a master manipulator. He doesn’t really engage Batman in any sort of physical way. His weapon is his mind, and he’s very incisive and clever: he reads people and sizes them up almost instantly. " - Paul Dini

" Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. " - Susan Sontag

" One picture is worth 1,000 denials. " - Ronald Reagan