“If accusations fit your prejudices, truth is easily pushed aside.”
Gerald N. Lund (1939) American Mormon leader
“The truth is the truth, regardless of whether it fits your ideological biases.”
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“As we know, wokeness prizes ideology and narrative over truth.”
Jerry Coyne (1949) American biologist
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