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— Umberto Eco"A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny."
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We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.
— Steven Pinker
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My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different.
— Ravi Zacharias
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