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

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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. – Joseph De Maistre

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