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There's an argument when the sailors try to determine their latitude and the reader suggests figuring out their longitude.
Source: Literature / Time Machine Series - Continuity Lockout: A new reader might be able to independently determine most of what's wrong with Roxanne, but good luck figuring out how Saxon and Lionel fit into it.
Source: Comic Strip / Candorville - The atheist would argue that there are ways to determine right and wrong (see below) and that they are capable of figuring them out on their own, sometimes through well-thought-out reason, a search for enlightenment or just plain empathy, without needing any God or metaphysics.
Source: Useful Notes / Atheism
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