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@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ if we leave the people in ignorance." \\
 — [[http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl47.php | Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe]] (1786)
 
 
-== On Knowledge ==
+== On Epistemology ==
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+<div style="float: right">{{Socrates.jpg|maxwidth=400}}</div>
 
 "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\
 — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] \\
@@ -77,8 +79,7 @@ if we leave the people in ignorance." \\
 "You don’t get to say you’ve proved something if you haven’t explained it. \\
 A proof is a social construct. If the community doesn’t understand it, \\
 you haven’t done your job.” \\
-— [[http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/ | Cathy O’Neil on Mochizuki's impenetrable proof of the ABC conjecture
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+— [[http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/ | Cathy O’Neil on Mochizuki's impenetrable proof of the ABC conjecture ]]
 “At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. \\
 When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. \\
 In fact, I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. \\
@@ -87,9 +88,10 @@ For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimula
 It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.” \\
 — [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929
 
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 == On Living a Good Life ==
 
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 "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." \\
 — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
 
@@ -114,11 +116,5 @@ a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king.  Gandhi replied
 Looking at a mass of goods for sale: "How many things I have no need for!" \\
 — [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius | Socrates]]' take on Athens' rampant consumerism, circa 400 BC
 
-Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
-  — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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-1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others. \\
-2) Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed. \\
-— [[https://www.fidonet.org/policy4.txt | The FidoNet Policy 4.07, 1989]]
+Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. \\
+— Marcus Tullius Cicero