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Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought.

— 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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