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Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as wildly individualistic and unbearably bright.

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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
Intellectual
Skeptics
Powerful
Individualistic
Though
Conformist
Enjoy
Wildly
Social
Skeptic
Today
Propaganda
Thinking
Bright
Conformists
Continue
Unbearably

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