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— Alfred North Whitehead"In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles."
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The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.
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The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to see how long they could keep someone alive while being roasted. It is not needful to go into further details, but there were also religious books of instruction in this art, and guides for the detection of heresy by pain.
— Christopher Hitchens
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