The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) h…

Alain de Botton
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones. ✨ Twitter post from Nov 02, 2014
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones. ✨ Twitter post from Nov 02, 2014

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