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— Henry David Thoreau"The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance."
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The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.
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