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It Is... Easy To Be Certain. One Has Only To Be Sufficiently Vague.
-Charles Sanders Peirce
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It Is... Easy To Be Certain. One
Charles Sanders Peirce
It Is... Easy To Be Certain. One Has Only To Be Sufficiently Vague.
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