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“What to me is truly frightful is not the quality of what everyone agrees on, but the very fact of universal agreement.”
― Alexander Nehamas

“The most effective way to control the people is to make them reliant on you through consistent reward with the least effort on their part.”
― Abhijit Naskar, No Foreigner Only Family

“You cannot discover new roads with old maps.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac

“The effects of conformity on beliefs and attitudes are the more injurious because people tend to associate with others who have similar beliefs to themselves. ... the only way to substantiate a belief is to try to disprove it. But because like mixes with like, people are rarely exposed to counter-arguments to their more deeply held convictions, let alone to counter-evidence. Their beliefs conform to those of their associates: hence, there is little possibility of eliminating persistent errors.”
― Stuart Sutherland, Irrationality