"There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?"
The Art of Controversy, and Other Posthumous Papers (ed. 1896)
~Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860)
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