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Approve and pursue the kind that is in accordance with nature. But avoid the kind that claims to be inspired: people like that about tell lies about Gods, and urge us to do many foolish things.

— Apollonius of Tyana to Apollonius. Quoted from Ram Swarup (2000)

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