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#8 — Ask Me Anything 1

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Taking Quotes Out of the Koran

i often fantasize about dropping 90% of what i'm doing and going back to school. This is the sort of thing where you worry that taking any significant amount of time to correct for your deficits is, in the big picture, a waste of time. And who knows, i may yet do that. So i have a variety of questions ona ted theme here. I'm often attacked for taking quotes out of scripture, out of the koran in particular, but scripture generally,. Taking them out of context, and therefore misconstruing them or misrepresenting them, misrepresenting their meaning. Is that a fair well? It's not that you can't take a quote out of

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