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Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood.
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Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Barbara W. Tuchman
Born:
January 30, 1912
Died:
February 6, 1989
(aged 77)
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