There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists a…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.
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