"When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote"
"If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud."
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Source: Personal Recollections by Rush Rhees, Ch. 6, 1981.
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