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> [“How could they be so certain of the superiority of their truths when they knew so little, if anything at all, about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-shafak/how-could-they-be-so-certain-of-the-superiority-of-their-truths-when/)

[Elif Shafak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-shafak/)

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> [But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/but-it-is-not-at-all-certain-that-this-superiority-of-the-many-over/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mason-cooley/people-often-imagine-that-being-hard-to-please-confers-a-certain/)

[Mason Cooley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mason-cooley/)

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> [There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-always-a-certain-meanness-in-the-argument-of-conservatism/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Strange, that certain superiority the goer-away feels for the stayer-at-home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lenora-mattingly-weber/strange-that-certain-superiority-the-goer-away-feels-for-the-stayer/)

[Lenora Mattingly Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lenora-mattingly-weber/)

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