A Quote by Michael Kinsley
The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
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Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in
principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic
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No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness.
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