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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. – Voltaire

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. – George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

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Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke

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He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. – William Drummond, Academical Questions

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