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— William Empson"The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own."
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It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.
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