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“One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.”

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Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

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“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of Babel in the Bible. The civilization we live in at present is a gigantic technological structure, a skyscraper almost high enough to reach the moon. It looks like a single world-wide effort, but it's really a deadlock of…

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