How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
JOHN STUART MILL
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All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.
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