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Charles Fort Quotes: I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.
         

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.


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A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

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Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.



The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.



I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.

I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.



Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.



In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.



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One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable



There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.



Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

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