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Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.

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To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.

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The centipede was happy quite Until the toad for fun Said: "Pray which leg comes after which?" This wrought his mind to such a pitch, He lay distracted in the ditch Considering how to run.

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Brand Blanshard

Born: August 27, 1892
Died: November 19, 1987 (aged 95)
Bio: Percy Brand Blanshard was an American philosopher known primarily for his defense of reason. A powerful polemicist, by all accounts he comported himself with courtesy and grace in philosophical controversies and exemplified the "rational temper" he advocated.
Known for:
  1. The nature of thought (1939)
  2. On philosophical style. (1954)
  3. Reason & Analysis (1962)
  4. Reason and Goodness (1961)

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