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<blockquote type="cite" cite> What's that old Arabic</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>heretical saying that Dostoevsky was fond
of stating `if god does not</blockquote>
<div>exist everything is permitted'?<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Ian Murray</blockquote>
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<div>Joan Robinson, in<i> Economic Philosophy</i>, had the last word
on this:</div>
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<div>"This has to be one of the most stupid things ever
written.</div>
<div> Whether or not god exists, it still would not be
permitted</div>
<div> to drive on the right in London or to drive on the
left</div>
<div> in Paris."</div>
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<div>"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras
that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying,
even downright silly.<br>
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When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true."
(N. Weiner)<br>
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<div>Shane Mage</div>
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