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h2oys
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• Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions - Oliver Wendall Holmes.
 
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sigfreund
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Unfortunately not all minds are capable of being stretched by new ideas.

A good one, though. Smile



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“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”
— Plato
 
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But minds without the tools on board to differentiate between truth/fact and nonsense/dishonesty, also expand, which I would not view as a positive. Luckily for Holmes he lived in very different times.


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