Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions. - Alfred North Whitehead

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I think there's a real tension between capitalism and morality. That's not to say these systems aren't powerful and useful, but to assume that capitalism can somehow assure moral behavior or character, that's just a pipe dream.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

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