"Africans are naturally in tune with the ancestral realm. We “feel” things. “know” things"

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"The dilemma of a socialized system is that the information flow overwhelms a centralized system if it is open to new ideas and data, that closing the system and forcing the plan to work forecloses alt…"

— Sidney G. Winter

Economics1935

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"As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God a…"

— Origen

Religion

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"He changes his opinions as he does his friends, and much on the same account. He has no comfort in fixed principles; as soon as anything is settled in his own mind, he quarrels with it. He has no sati…"

— William Hazlitt

Literature1778–1830

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"Baruch Spinoza, the excommunicated Jew, made the Jewish cultural position in the West not only tenable, but impregnable. But the same Baruch Spinoza was actually responsible for the cultural anti-Semi…"

— Baruch Spinoza

Philosophy1632–1677

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