A bishop interviewing Justin Welby when he first put himself forward for ordination:
I have interviewed a thousand candidates for ordination and you don’t come in the top thousand.
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'evidence'
Things I hate 1) Vandalism 2) Irony 3) Lists
For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.…