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Topic: The Great Purge of Literature
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kirby urner

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Re: The Great Purge of Literature
Posted: Jan 7, 2013 3:32 AM
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> We help our students develop taste, understanding people are born with
> tastes. This isn't a Tabla Rasa philosophy, on my end. If reincarnation
> weren't true it might be necessary to invent it, to paraphrase Pascal,
> given how precocious little kids are sometime, little wise guys, almost
> literally.[2]
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My bad. It was Voltaire, not Pascal, who said:

"*Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer*"

Kirby

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