She [her granddaughter] asked her grandmother, shortly before her death, what life had taught her. “Freedom,” replied Topazia Alliata. “Freedom of thought. Nothing is more important.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... tuary.html
RIP Princess Topazia Alliata
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RIP Princess Topazia Alliata
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.