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People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, a

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them. – Condorcet, Progress of the Human Mind, 1794

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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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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. – Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams

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Conservatism should guide; it usually paralyzes. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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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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