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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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…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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[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

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Belief is when someone else does the thinking. – Buckminster Fuller, 1972

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