"People who pursue their own intellectual interests for purely personal reasons are more likely to benefit the rest of the world than are people who try to act for the public good."
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of the world to keep busy at.
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of the world to keep busy at.
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and even when it is unhelpful or harmful to do so.... - Most societies do not take their greatest thinkers seriously,
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