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"Certainly - and I say this fearlessly and from my heart - if I had to write with such vast authority I should prefer so to write that my words should mean whatever truth anyone would find upon these matters, rather than express one true meaning so clearly as to exclude all others, though these contain no false hoods to offend me. " (Saint Augustine, Confessions, Book XII, translated by F. J. Sheed)
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If I were Moses, asked to write the word of *** for all mankind for all time, I would hope to write in such a way that the reader would find in my words whatever truth it was in him to find, rather than to express my own ideas so clearly that there was no room for other ideas, other ideas that were harmless (and perhaps just as true in their own way).
- If I were Moses, asked to write the word of *** for all mankind for all time, I would hope to write in such a way that the reader would find in my words whatever truth it was in him to find, rather than to express my own ideas so clearly that there was no room for other ideas, other ideas that were harmless (and perhaps just as true in their own way).
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If I were Moses, asked to write the word of *** for all mankind for all time, I would hope to write in such a way that the reader would find in my words whatever truth it was in him to find, rather than to express my own ideas so clearly that there was no room for other ideas, other ideas that were harmless (and perhaps just as true in their own way).
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