“(Pete) Rose's coming clean is the most soiled conversion of convenience since ... well, Aug. 17, 1998, when DNA evidence caused Bill Clinton to undergo a memory clarification. On the diamond, no one ever wrung more success from less natural talent than Rose did. But his second autobiography - which refutes the first - makes worse the mess he has made.” FirstsWellsMadeNaturalMemoriesTalentEvidenceBillsRoseCleanClintonConversionMessDiamondAutobiographyDnaConvenienceNatural TalentClarificationDna Evidence Author:George Will
“No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. If religions depended upon evidence for their prolongation, then all of them would collapse.” IfsMenReasonCapableEvidenceDemocraticConversionDelusionCollapseSusceptible Book:Mencken Chrestomathy Source: Mencken Chrestomathy