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"The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values."
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"For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize."
"Is Virgin you trying to fathom me."
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