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|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing [[sense of life|worth doing]] was to add to the sum of [[Accuracy and precision|accurate]] [[information]] in the world.'''<br /> | |01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing [[sense of life|worth doing]] was to add to the sum of [[Accuracy and precision|accurate]] [[information]] in the world.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite> | ||
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|53 = '''The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first our own increase of knowledge; secondly to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.'''<br /> | |53 = '''The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first our own increase of knowledge; secondly to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Locke]]''<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Locke]]''<br /> | ||
|54 = '''[the reader] must write the text as much as possible in order to avoid being written by the text's ideology.''' | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Phillipe Soller, novelist<br /> | |||
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Revision as of 17:22, 9 August 2012
Words constitute the ultimate texture and stuff of our moral being, since they are the most refined and delicate and detailed, as well as the most universally used and understood, of the symbolisms whereby we express ourselves into existence.
— Iris Murdoch
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