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Quote by Søren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. – Søren Kierkegaard

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Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks, 1508

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The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it. – H.G. Wells

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…the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it… – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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