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The idea that science speaks of reality or truth is an illusion. There is no Truth; there are only truths, and truths change.
Explaining Postmodernism
Stephen R. C. Hicks
The writers of the 2001 videogame Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, presaged the absurd intellectual environment of the world wide web: “The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate … No one is invalidated, but nobody is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in ‘truth.’ And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.”
How Individualism Created Our Postmodern Culture
Alexander Blum
“Your attitude determines your altitude,” “Smiling wins more friends than frowning,” and “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
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