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“ To create a free society is not to accomplish the impossible task of convincing all people to abandon aggression, but to accomplish the essential task of convincing enough people to abandon the belief that aggression is ever legitimate. ”

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A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A public intellectual operates with buzzwords.

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Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.

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Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.

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The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.

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