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“You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.”
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“I have said that one of the distinguishing characteristics of a great man is that his active intervention makes what seemed highly improbable in fact happen.”
― Personal Impressions
― Personal Impressions
“...even when your mind wanders, it's going someplace, and all that travelling adds up...”
― Wash
― Wash
“Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.”
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“......philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization....but if professors can truly wield this fatal power, may it not be that only other professors, or, at least, other thinkers can alone disarm them?”
― Four Essays on Liberty
― Four Essays on Liberty
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