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I don't believe in fate, I don't believe in souls, and I am certainly not a romantic. Nonetheless, I have met my soulmate. I think that using that term is just a way to explain the unexplainable: it provides an account of why such incredible relationships are able to form. So, when taken literally, the term soulmate has no meaning to me. But conceptually, soulmates are a very rare and wonderful thing. I feel so fortunate to have fallen in love with mine.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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