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If you do not agree with the prevalent point of view, be ready to

If you do not agree with the prevalent point of view, be ready to explain why. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. – Mark Twain

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I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. – Henry Bessemer (discovered new method of producing steel)

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Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. – Lydia Maria Child

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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. – J.K. Galbraith

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