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I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.
Julian Baggini
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Julian Baggini
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 9
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If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.
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Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don't apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.
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