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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.
         

Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.


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