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Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.

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It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. Alfred Loisy
And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to? Zhuangzi
Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. George Eliot
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