| “ | In spite of their innate tendency to obedience, by some playfulness of nature that is not denied even to cows, quite a few of them [the 'ordinary'] like to imagine themselves progressive people, 'destroyers,' who are in on the 'new world,' [...]. And at the same time they quite often fail to notice the really new ones, and even despise them as backward, shabby-minded people. [...] Generally, there are remarkably few people born who have a new thought, who are capable, if only slightly, of saying anything new—strangely few, in fact. |
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Fyodor Dostoevsky— Crime and Punishment
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Esdraelon 19:35, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
| “ | In spite of their innate tendency to obedience, by some playfulness of nature that is not denied even to cows, quite a few of them [the 'ordinary'] like to imagine themselves progressive people, 'destroyers,' who are in on the 'new world,' [...]. And at the same time they quite often fail to notice the really new ones, and even despise them as backward, shabby-minded people. [...] Generally, there are remarkably few people born who have a new thought, who are capable, if only slightly, of saying anything new—strangely few, in fact. |
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Fyodor Dostoevsky— Crime and Punishment
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Esdraelon 19:35, 26 October 2007 (UTC)