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Benjamin Barber Quotes: Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.
         

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.


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