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We need — and should encourage and honour — not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values. – Walter Moberly, The Crisis in the University

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

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Habit rules the unreflecting herd. – William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 1822

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Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. – George Santayana

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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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