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How are you?

April 26th, 2010 | Author: Norma Allen

daffodilsHow many times during the course of the day do we ask each other the simple question, “How are you?” It is a brief question with expectation of an equally brief answer. We are usually not disappointed: “Fine. How are you?” “Can’t complain.” “Great, thanks.” And this is not necessarily a bad thing.

What we are ordinarily trying to communicate by asking the question is Read the rest of this entry »

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"The Christian religion made its appearance as the common disturber of the peace of the world, because it put an end to the tranquil influence of custom, authority, credulity, sentiment, and imagination; [and] forced upon men the disagreeable task of examining evidence, searching records, and proving all things."

- Richard Whately, Thoughts and Apophthegms from the Writings of Archbishop Whately, 1856

Le nombre de ceux qui pensent est excessivement petit, et ceux-là ne s'avisent pas de troubler le monde.

-- Voltaire,
Lettres Philosophiques

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