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    The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.

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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

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It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.

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The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and read more

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To know truly is to know by causes.

To know truly is to know by causes.

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Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in read more

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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When we can't dream any longer, we die.

When we can't dream any longer, we die.

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People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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