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We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

— Mark Kingwell The World We Want (2000)

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It wasn't atheism and corruption they feared, but inquiry.

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Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

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I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

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