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After nearly four decades on-line, I posit the following:
- The person who posts the greatest amount of repeated verbiage to a discussion, is least likely to be correct.
There is also a corollary:
- The person who is most insistent that only specific sources which he favours know the facts, is least likely to have found the best sources.
Collect (talk) 14:47, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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Paul Seibert says that the wording should be "sometimes". IMO, this is akin to saying "gravity sometimes causes apples to fall from trees." Collect (talk) 11:52, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
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