Few people are prepared to use their reason without fear or favor, or bold enough to apply it relentlessly to every moral, political and social issue… - Nicolas Chamfort

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Few people are prepared to use their reason without fear or favor, or bold enough to apply it relentlessly to every moral, political and social issue: to kings and ministers, to men in high places, to the philosophers, to absolutely every scientific and artistic principle. And if we don't, we're doomed to remain mediocre.