Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, f…

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Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter. ✨ Bertrand Russell (2014). The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, p.554, Routledge
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