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The love of wisdom in its wholeness requires exploration of the sources of the things we take for granted, including the thinking that has sorted out all the various disciplines, making demarcations between fields as well as envisioning what is to be done within them.

— Harvey Flaumenhaft Preface to Masterworks of Discovery series (2011)

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