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Went to a meeting yesterday and sat across from a most extraordinary gentleman.

He was old, very old in fact.

Total recall, even at the age of 98.

We should all be so lucky.

Fascinating!

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The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind. -- Herbert Spencer

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The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white. -- Alfred Tarski

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No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress. -- Paul Feyerabend

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Each of us not only 'has', but lives a biography reflexively organised in terms of flows of social and psychological information about possible ways of life. Modernity is a post-traditional order, in which the question, 'How shall I live?' has to be answered in day-to-day decisions about how to behave, what to wear and what to eat - and many other things - as well as interpreted within the temporal unfolding of self-identity. -- Anthony Giddens