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"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."
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"A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation."
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"This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault."
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