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

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There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled. РJean de La Bruy̬re, Characters, 1688

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Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. – Mark Twain, 1907, letter to Harriet E. Whitmore

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. – Mark Twain

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One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity. – James Buchan

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