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Walter Bagehot

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

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Johannes Kepler

let the book await its reader for a hundred years

I am indeed casting the die and writing the book, either for my contemporaries or for posterity to read, it matters not which: let the book await its reader for a hundred years; God himself has waited six thousand years for his work to be seen.

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Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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Firefly

Well, you were right about this being a bad idea.

Mal: Well, you were right about this being a bad idea.
Zoe: Thanks for saying, sir.