People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying so…

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact. ✨ Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). Crime and Punishment, p.364, Modern Library
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