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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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Sometimes I think and other times I am. РPaul Val̩ry, Vari̩t̩: Cantiques spirituels, 1924

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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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. – Niels Bohr

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