In the last few decades, a terribly pernicious rumor has been circulated by the press. It claims, exhibiting a level of stupidity heretofore considered impossible, that a human being could crawl through the arteries of a blue whale. Of course, nothing could be farther from the truth. I do not know why this deleterious rumor has been systematically repeated, but its very existence is an ugly cancer upon the face of science.
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Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence (1973)Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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The scarcity of truth is atoned for by the abundance of affidavits; if a rumor be impugned, its veracity is easily strengthened by additional emphasis of affirmation, until at last "everybody says so," and then it is undeniable.
Samuel Laman Blanchard
The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.
Stefan Zweig
Is qui scit plurimum, rumor.
Seneca the Younger
If a rumor comes out that I’m gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying.
James Van Der Beek
Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.
Stephen L. Carter
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