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“Eruptions like these puzzled Buckley’s teachers, as did his ‘dangerous habit of generalizing at times in order to prove a point without knowing the facts, and without having considered both sides of the question.’ When facts he wanted were within easy reach, Buckley happily used them to support his case. When they proved stubborn, he made up others more to his liking or repeated what his father told him.”