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“Colleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or sunbathing, is a leisure activity, neither more nor less admirable than any other, and colleges should not pretend otherwise.”

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Book:The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

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