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“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”
― William Paley

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
― Norman Cousins

“What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?”
― Thomas Sowell