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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compe

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. – Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams

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

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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. – S.I. Hayakawa

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