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WT Sharpe · 04-05-2011, 07:24 AM

.....An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having; and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.
..........— Mark Van Doren (1894 - 1973), American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, writer, critic, scholar and professor of English. Man's Right to Knowledge (1954).

04-05-2011, 07:24 AM	#1467
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	.....An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having; and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure. ..........— Mark Van Doren (1894 - 1973), American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, writer, critic, scholar and professor of English. *Man's Right to Knowledge* (1954).