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Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, — the fear instinct.
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The freedom of the seemingly false opinion and our tolerance of it and our willingness to meet with it in the open help test the validity of truth while keeping alive the critical sense which is the main spring of all advancement of human thought and is the vital point, the very soul, of all human progress.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Boris Sidis
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October 12, 1867
Died:
October 24, 1923
(aged 56)
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