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whats the very worst thing about living in britain?
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i dunno how you could ever pick the one worst thing, there's so much competition
#84
its wierd isnt it
#85
beans on toast
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from chapter 6 of goulds the mismeasure of man 1981, best bit
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Our greatest intellectual adventures often occur within us--not in the restless search for new facts and new objects on the earth but from a need to expunge old prejudices and build new conceptual structures. no hunt can have a sweeter reward, a more admirable goal, than the excitement of throughly revised understanding--the inward journey that thrills real scholars and scares the bejesus out of the rest of us.



what gould is saying is that realising that you are wrong about something owns, somethign we always forget

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tears posted:

chapter 6 of goulds the mismeasure of man 1981,



that is a good book