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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing

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

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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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