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“Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fdf5bf747d66a1ec732f5cb1b767affbe84439230a9ae80434df5a93c2dbbaf3
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