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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

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