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Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
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Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient… — Peter York Copy Share Image
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“If they were right, there was an absence of conflict not only over the specific case of cosmology but, in principle, over… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
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The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
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The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
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Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will… — William Golding Copy Share Image
One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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