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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. – Voltaire

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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. – Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. – Clarence Darrow

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