"Would to God your horizon may broaden every day! The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling."
~ Ivan Turgenev to Leo Tolstoy (1856)
At one time or another we've all been left holding the lizard's tail, haven't we?
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