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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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…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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One cannot think crooked and walk straight. – Author Unknown

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. – Søren Kierkegaard

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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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