Whos signature is this?

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Someone on this forum has a pretty spiffy signature that I thought went well with the nature of gun politics. Saw it once and can't find it since. I remember it being sources to someone economist/accounting person and basically said:

'One thing I've learned is that people have an amazing ability to mold new evidence to fit their preconceived conclusions'.

Anyone know the source or seen this signature on THR?
 
Wacki, I remember that statement used in the context of theological discussions in college. But I guess it applies equally well to guns and hunting, hot rods, fishing, economics, politics...
 
And .45 vs 9mm.

Who said that ! ?

Not me! Wuz the guy next to me... there he goes...let's get 'im!
 
I don't know the phrase, but it's similar to one that I like even better:

"Data, if sufficiently tortured, can be made to confess to anything."
 
Maybe this?

'It is amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.' Charles Kettering US Inventor
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Although I'll admit that the posted quote has a tinge of H. L. Mencken's particular flavor of cynicism in it.

Just for the heck of it, a few of Mencken's best lines:

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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This one is particularly relevant in this day and age...if only more people actually knew what the word "demagogue" actually meant:

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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Must've been election season when he wrote this one:

The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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Eerily similar to Hermann Goring's famous quote:

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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There are plenty of good quotes posted. thanks to all that have responded. Kind of funny that I'm looking for a quote I'm certain I know exists as a signature on THR yet can't find it.
 
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