The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor …

Robert Green Ingersoll
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The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). The works of Robert G. Ingersoll, p.186, Library of Alexandria
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