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“[A]usterity-loving pundits and policy makers really are like medieval doctors who believed in treating illness by bleeding their patients, making the...”
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“Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of...”
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“[I]t is not particularly difficuly to move towards a solution the problem raised by Hume, which Kant believed he had solved. The belief in the...”
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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
The sea is calm tonight,
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
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I am twenty-nine, pocket flap folded
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And I am smiling I am looking out at a world that
I significantly re-created from inside
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Here indeed lies the justest and most plausible objection against a considerable part of metaphysics, that they are not properly a science; but arise either from the fruitless efforts of human vanity, which would penetrate into subjects utterly inaccessible to the understanding, or from the craft of popular superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness.
David Hume, Enquiry
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