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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. – Alfred North Whitehead

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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. – John Stuart Mill

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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. – Adlai Stevenson, speech, Princeton, 1954

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The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. – Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 1932 July 30th

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