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Wednesday, June 18, 2003

�All great truths begin as blasphemies.�
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 � 1950), Irish socialist, writer, dramatist and critc: �Annajanska�, 1919.

�Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.�
- John Stuart Mill (1806 � 1873), English philosopher, economist and reformer: �On Liberty�, 1859.

�No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority is divine.�
- A. J. Ayer (1910 � 1989), English philosopher: �Essay on Humanism�

�And remember Mother�s practical ethics: one can drown in compassion if one answers every call it�s another way of suicide.�
- Patrick White (1912 � 1990), English-born Australian writer and dramatist: �The Eye of the Storm�, 1973.


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