I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.
These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.
Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.
We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.