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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions

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

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But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. – Virginia Woolf

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