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“Peter B. Nockles, ‘Knox, Alexander ’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, October 2005, accessed 1 June 2007”

“Trinity College, Toronto”

“There is not a moral evil which has not its infallible antidote, nor any moral virtue which has not its spring and sustenance in Jesus Christ and Him crucified. To apprehend Him with every faculty of the mind, and with every affection of the heart, and to grow daily in that apprehension, is to emerge from every thing that enthralls, to surmount all that can contaminate.”

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"To sum up all these steps, each of which is very lengthy and complex, we will have put the game of truth back in the network of constraints and dominations. Truth, I should say rather, the system of t…"

— Michel Foucault

Literature1926–1984

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"For all practical purposes, the universe is a pattern generator, and the mind "makes sense" of these patterns by encoding them according to the regularities it can find. Thus, the representation of a …"

— Joscha Bach

Philosophy1973

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"Nietzsche ... did not settle for a demure civic conversation in the style of Richard Rorty's ironist, or saunter off with the smug nod that registers a deconstructive job neatly done. He was aware tha…"

— Bernard Williams

Philosophy1929–2003

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